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OLD    ST.    PAUL'S    CHURCH, 

225  S.  THIRD  STREET,   PHILADELPHIA. 


1760  1898"^ 

OUTLINE  OF  THE  HISTORY 

OF 

OLD    ST.   PAUL'S  CHURCH 

PHILADELPHIA,  PENNSYLVANIA 


WITH  AN  APPEAL  FOR  ITS  PRESERVA- 
TION, TOGETHER  WITH  ARTICLES  OF 
AGREEMENT,  ABSTRACT  OF  TITLE,  LIST 
OF  RECTORS,  VESTRYMEN,  AND  INSCRIP- 
TIONS   OF    TOMBSTONES    AND    VAULTS. 


MAY    2  1949 


BY 

NORRIS  STANLEY  BARRATT 

PRESIDENT    JUDGE    COURT    OF    COMMON    PLEAS,    NO.    2,    FIRST    JUDICIAL 
DISTRICT    OF   PENNSYLVANIA 


PUBLISHED  BY 
THE  COLONIAL  SOCIETY  OF  PENNSYLVANIA 

1917 


Copyright,  1918,  by 
NoRRis  Stanley  Barratt 


PRESS  OF 

THE  NEW  ERA  PRINTING  COMPANY 

LANCASTtR,  PA. 


ILLUSTRATIONS-PLATES. 

Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul Frontispiece. 

Facing  Page 

Main  entrance  gates  of  Old  St.  Paul's 3 

Family  vaults  in  front  churchyard,  south  side 5 

Burial  ground  rear  churchyard 7 

Family  vault  ' '  William  Cummings  " 15 

Family  vault  "Edwin  Forrest" 19 

Portrait  Colonel  Blaithwaite  Jones 23 

Christ  Church,  Second  and  Market  Streets 29 

Font 45 

Font  with  silver  baptismal  bowl 47 

Portrait  Rev.  William  Smith,  D.D 77 

Portrait  Rt.  Rev.  William  White,  D.D 104 

Portrait  Rev.  Joseph  Pilmore,  D.D 113 

Cathedra 123 

Portrait  Rev.  Benjamin  Allen,  Rector  1821-1829 125 

Portrait  Rev.  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  D.D.,  Rector  1829-1833 . .  135 
Portrait  Rev.  Samuel  A.  McCoskrey,  D.D.,  Rector  1834- 

1836  141 

Portrait  Rev.  James  May,  D.D.,  Rector  1836-1840 143 

Portrait  Rev.  Richard  Newton,  D.D.,  Rector  1840-1862. .  145 

Interior  of  St.  Paul's  in  1861 147 

Portrait  Richard  Alexander 149 

Portrait  Rev.  Kingston  Goddard,  D.D.,  Rector  1862-1866 .  158 

Portrait  Rev.  R.  Heber  Newton,  D.D.,  Rector  1866-1868 . .  161 

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Portrait  Eev.  Eobert  T.  Koche,  D.D.,  Rector  1869-1872. .  173 

Portrait  Rev.  Samuel  H.  Boyer,  D.D.,  Rector  1873-1879 .  175 

Portrait  Rev.  William  Adamson,  Rector  1880-1886 176 

Portrait  Rev.  Thomas  K.  Conrad,  Rector  1886-1893 ....  179 

Portrait  Rev.  Charles  Ellis  Stevens,  Rector  1893-1894. . .  180 

Portrait  Rev.  William  I.  McGarvey,  Rector  1897-1898. . .  182 

Portrait  William  Cummings,  1806-1889 162 

Pulpit  and  communion  set 210 

Plan  of  vaults  and  graves — Appendix  F 216 

Portrait   Cornelius   Stevenson 228 

Portrait  Captain  Norris  Stanley 231 

James  Alexander 's  receipt  for  pew  rent 254 

ILLUSTEATIONS  AND  FAC-SIMILES  IN 

TEXT. 

Arms  of  the  United  States  of  America 3 

Autograph  Norris  Stanley  Barratt 24 

Seal  of  corporation  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  1797 25 

St.  Paul's  Church  lottery  ticket,  1761— No.  71 37 

Deed  William  Cummings  family  pew  No.  15 62 

Title  page  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Magaw's  prayer,  1786 107 

Title  page  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Magaw's  sermon,  1793 108 

Notice  to  pay  pew  rent  or  forfeit  pew,  1819 119 

Title  page  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Pilmore  's  sermon,  1786 121 

Richard  J.  Alexander's  receipt  for  pew  rent,  1853 149 

James  Alexander's  receipt  for  pew  rent,  1773 254 

TABLE  OF  STATUTES  IN  TEXT. 

General  Laws  of  Massachusetts,  1640 59 

Laws  of  Connecticut,  1672 59 

Digest  of  Ordinances  of  New  England 59 

Act  of  February  17,  1762,  Penna 40 

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Act  of  March  17,  1789,  Penna 40 

Act  of  April  6,  1790,  Penna 40 

Act  of  March  3,  1800,  Penna 41 

Act  of  March  11,  1816,  Penna 8 

Act  of  April  26,  1855,  Penna 190 

Act  of  May  19,  1874,  Penna 12 

Act  of  May  13,  1876,  Penna 12 

Act  of  April  18,  1877,  Penna 13 

Act  of  May  23,  1887,  Penna 15-17-189 

TABLE  OP  CASES  IN  TEXT. 

Appeal  Society  of  Cincinnati 8 

Campher  vs.   Paulson 12 

Church  vs.  "Wells,  Executor 63 

Commonwealth  vs.  Susquehanna  Coal  Co 5 

Commonwealth  vs.  St.  Mary 's  Church 63 

Colbert  vs.  Kirtly  and  Shepherd,  Va 192 

Congregation  Shaari  Shomayim  vs.  Moss 12 

Cooney  vs.  Laurence 12 

Craig  vs.  First  Presbyterian  Church 13 

Episcopal  Academy  vs.  Taylor 101 

First    Presbyterian    Church    vs.    Second    Presbyterian 

Church    10 

Fox  vs.  Gordon 12 

Francis  Estate 12 

Gampher  vs.  Woodland  Cemetery  Co 5 

Harding  Estate 12 

Hoppe  vs.  Cathedral  Cemetery 15 

In   re    German   Roman    Catholic    Holy   Trinity   Burial 

Ground   18 

In  re  Stephen  Girard 12 

In  re  Trinity  Episcopal  Church. 18 

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'Ea&Ie  of  Casfe^  in  ^nt 


Page 

Kincaid  's  Appeal   10 

Krauczunas  vs.  Hogan 190 

Laurie  vs.  Piatt 12 

Louther  vs.  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 190 

Mazaika  vs.  Krauczunas 191 

Memorial  Assn.,  Valley  Forge 8-189 

Methodist  Cemetery  Case 189 

Morris  Appeal — City  Troop  Case 4 

Pawlet  vs.   Clark 102 

Pearsall  vs.  Great  Northern  R.R 9 

Pennsylvania  Archives    120 

Pettigrew  vs.  Pettigrew 12 

Phillips  vs.  Westminster 191 

Proposed  Act  of  1917 192 

Quigg  vs.  Tracy 102 

Scott  vs.  Reilly 12 

Society  for  Propagation  of  Gospel  vs.  New  Haven 10 

State  vs.  Trinity  Church 63 

St.  Paul's  Church  Chestnut  Hill 190 

St.  John 's  Church  vs.  Hanns 5 

Town  of  Pawlet  vs.  Clark 10 

Terrett  vs.  Taylor 10 

Veto  of  Governor  Martin  G.  Brumbaugh 192 

Wynkoop   vs.   Wynkoop 12 

Young's  Estate  189 

Zion  German  Reformed  Congregation 189 


APPEAL 


THE    IRON    ENTRANCE    GATE    OF    THE    EPISCOPAL   CHURCH    OF 
ST.    PAUL'S   ON    THIRD   STREET,    PHILADELPHIA. 

MADE    IN    ENGLAND    ESPECIALLY    FOR    THE    PURPOSE.      ERECTED    PRIOR    TO   THE    REVOLUTION 
AND   WHICH    WAS   THE    ADMIRATION    AND    PRIDE    OF   OUR    COLONIAL   ANCESTORS. 


AN  APPEAL  FOR  THE  PRESERVATION  OF 
OLD  ST.  PAUL'S 


M^/J^  is  understood  that  the  Right  Reverend 
j[      Philip  M.  Rhinelander  and  the  Trustees  of 

^m  I  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Dio- 
M^^^  cese  of  Pennsylvania  are  considering  the  sale 
of  the  Old  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul, 
Third  Street,  below  Walnut  Street,  Philadelphia  (now 
used  by  the  Protestant  Episcopal  City  Mission),  to- 
Considering  Sale  gether  with  the  burial  ground,  vaults  and 

of  St.  Paul's  graves,  for  the  purpose  of  applying  the 
proceeds  thereof  towards  building  a  Diocesan  House 
for  the  City  Mission,  and  other  diocesan  uplift  activi- 
ties, in  connection  with  the  contemplated  Cathedral 
Church  of  St.  Mary's,  to  replace  the  Church  of  the 
Ascension,  now  at  Broad  and  South  Streets. 

My  ancestors  ex  parte  materna  were  prominent  in  St. 
Paul's  before  and  after  the  Revolution.  James  Alex- 
ander (1726-1795),  my  great-great-grandfather;  Rich- 
ard Alexander  (1780-1825),  my  great-grandfather; 
William  Cummings  (1806-1889),  my  grandfather,  forty 
years  a  vestryman;  Captain  Norris  Stanley  (1765— 
1851),  whose  namesake  I  am,  also  a  vestryman,  as  well 

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as  other  members  of  my  family  down  to  and  including 
my  mother,  Mary  Irvine  Barratt,  were  communicants. 
Many  of  my  masonic  brethren,  members  of  Lodge  No.  2, 
Free    and   Accepted    Masons    of    Pennsylvania    (the 

Revolutionary  Mother  Lodge  of  the  State),  of  which  I 
Heroes  have  the  honor  to  be  a  Past  Master,  were 
likewise  prominent.  Colonel  Thomas  Proctor,  Colonel 
Blathwaite  Jones,  Captain  David  Hall,  John  Wood,  dis- 
tinguished members  of  the  Grand  Lodge  as  well  as  offi- 
cers in  Washington's  forces,  also  private  Blair 
McClenachan  of  the  First  Troop  City  Cavalry,^  George 
Glentworth,  the  prominent  physician  and  Revolution- 
ary surgeon,  are  buried  in  the  church-yard.  All  this 
gives  me  a  deep  interest  in  the  question  and  makes 
me  seriously  opposed  to  having  this  ancient  church,  with 
its  rich  Colonial,  Revolutionary  and  Masonic  history, 
sold  for  mere  profit  and  business  purposes,  and  the 
vaults  and  graves  of  its  honored  dead  disturbed  and 
demolished,  particularly  when  no  necessity  for  such  ac- 
tion exists.  The  City  Mission,  which  now  occupies 
the  church  edifice,  is  doing  much  efficient  relief  work 
among  the  needy  poor,  and  can  continue  its  beneficent 
labors  as  effectively  here  as  at  Broad  and  South  Streets. 

The  right  of  descendants  to  protect  the  graves  of 

their  ancestors  is  well  settled.     The  common  law  im- 

poses  the  duty  of  providing  sepulture 

of  and  of  carrying  to  the  grave  the  dead 

Descendants  }jo(jy^  decently  covered,  not  only  upon 
the  heir  and  next  of  kin,  but  upon  the  person  under 

1  For  a  short  history,  of  the  City  Troop  and  letter  of  Washington  com- 
mending it,  see  Morris  Appeal,  68  Pennsylvania  State  Reports,  p.  17, 
Opinion  by  Justice  Sharswood. 

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whose  roof  the  death  takes  place.  And  these  legal 
rights  of  the  next  of  kin,  the  Courts  of  law  will  recog- 
nize and  protect  (Com.  ex.  rel.  v.  Susquehanna  Coal 
Co.,  5  Kulp  195;  Gampher  et  al.  v.  Paulson  and  the 
Woodland  Cemetery  Co.,  19  Weekly  Notes  of  Cases,  p. 
230;  St.  John's  Church  v.  Harms,  31  Penna.  State  Re- 
ports, p.  9). 

There  are  many  buried  in  St.  Paul's  ground,— the 
rich,  the  great,  the  learned,  and  the  wise,  as  well  as  the 
poor  and  the  humble— death  obliterating  all  earthly  dis- 
tinctions. When  their  bodies  were  consigned  to  their 
graves,  *' earth  to  earth,  ashes  to  ashes,  dust  to  dust," 
it  was  contemplated  that  they  were  there  to  remain 
until  tlie  trumpet  should  sound  on  the  resurrection 
morn.  Many  Philadelphians  will  be  surprised  to  learn 
that  here  interred  are  their  great-grandfathers,  who, 
having  reached  their  journey's  end,  sleep  peacefully, 
and  whose  repose  should  not  be  disturbed.  Among  the 
descendants  of  these  now  quiet  sleepers,  here  in  Phila- 
delphia and  widely  elsewhere  scattered,  are  scores,  who, 
if  they  knew  of  the  proposed  sale,  would  earnestly  en- 
dorse my  opposition. 

From  vaults,  gravestones  and  burial  lists  of  St. 
Paul's,  the  following  surnames  may  be  gathered: 
Alexander,    Allen,    Anderson,    Armat,    Auber,    Babb, 

Well  Known  Barbazett,  Barratt,  Barker,  Barger, 
Philadelphians  Bames,  Bartram,  Bayne,  Beatty,  Beard, 
Buried  jgg^]^^  ggii^  Benson,  Beaks,  Blair,  Biggs, 

Brown,  Bridges,  Boyd,  Bowen,  Buckley,  Butler,  Camp- 
bell, Cameron,  Cannon,  Carteret,  Carson,  Caskey, 
Christy,  Claypoole,  Claxton,  Clark,  Connelly,  Cox,  Co- 

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hoon,  Consort,  Copper,  Cowell,  Craven,  Cromwell,  Cum- 
mings,  Curtis,  Cnrrie,  Davis,  Dawson,  De  Bray,  Desil- 
ver,  Dilworth,  Donaven,  Daughty,  Du  Plessis,  Doughty, 
Drais,  Eccles,  Edwards,  Elmslie,  Ellis,  Ernes,  Erwin, 
Evans,  Fannen,  Farr,  Ferguson,  Fenton,  Feinour, 
Fleeson,  Freburger,  Field,  Flower,  Fitzrandolpli,  Fitz- 
gerald, Forrest,  Foot,  Forder,  Fennell,  Gartley,  Gill, 
Gilligban,  Glentworth,  Goodwin,  Gosner,  Guerin,  Hal- 
berstadt.  Hall,  Halt,  Harman,  Hay  ward,  Harris,  Heyl, 
Hinton,  Hicks,  Holland,  Hood,  Hook,  Hozey,  Hulse- 
kamp,  Hyde,  Hunt,  lann,  Irving,  Irvine,  Jacobson, 
James,  Johnston,  Johnson,  Josiah,  Jones,  Jordan, 
Keble,  Keen,  Keller,  Kirkliam,  Kirk,  Lake,  Lane,  Las- 
key,  Ledlie,  Leech,  Leamy,  Loper,  Lowry,  Lougeay,  Mat- 
thews, Masden,  Marsden,  Marple,  Marshall,  Manning, 
Marsh,  Meer,  Miller,  Mitchell,  Mory,  Moyes,  Morrison, 
Moore,  Molier,  Moffet,  Moyston,  Myers,  Murdick,  Mus- 
kett,  McClenachan,  McKay,  McGlathery,  McPherson, 
Macpherson,  Nally,  Neaill,  Nelson,  Neilson,  Neave, 
Neill,  Nichols,  Norman,  North,  Oliphant,  Parker, 
Pechin,  Palmer,  Pilmore,  Patton,  Phillip,  Pritchard, 
Potter,  Powers,  Price,  Procter,  Rankin,  Roberdeau,  Ra- 
worth,  Randolph,  Read,  Redner,  Renshaw,  Reynolds, 
Richards,  Richardet,  Rimer,  Rivelly,  Robinson,  Robinett, 
Ross,Rinedollar,  Robbins,  Rose,  Row,  Rowley,  Rushton, 
Ryerson,  Sadler,  Seaborn,  Seyfert,  Shade,  Shaffner, 
Shinkle,  Smith,  Simpson,  Spooner,  Stewart,  Skerret, 
Snyder,  Spence,  Spain,  Spillard,  Sperry,  Stanley, 
Stotesbury,  Stevenson,  Stokes,  Stiles,  Swain,  Stuart, 
Tallman,  Thackara,  Thomson,  Toland,  Thompson, 
Town,  Turner,  Vallance,  Vanderhalt,  Voigt,  Wallace, 

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more,  Wilson,  Wood,  Wright,  Yorke,  Young. 

There  are  doubtless  omissions  from  this  list.  Grave- 
stones here  and  there  cannot  now  be  deciphered ;  some 
removals  to  Mt.  Moriah  and  other  burial  grounds  in 
Philadelphia  were  effected  in  1855,  while  many,  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  parish,  were  originally  else- 
where interred.  Among  the  latter  may  be  noted: 
Jay  Cooke,  Lewis  H.  Redner,  J.  D.  George,  Henry 
George,  John  P.  Bankson,  William  Weightman,  Joseph 
B.  Van  Dusen,  Thomas  Latimer,  George  C.  Thomas, 
Charles  B.  Durborow,  John  W.  Thomas,  Richard  G. 
Stotesbury,  Henry  M.  Kimmey,  Eleazer  Fenton,  James 
Farr,  and  Dr.  Charles  E.  Cadwalader. 

We  all  cherish  a  reverence  for  antiquity  and  believe 
in  the  preservation  of  those  things  and  places  which 
make  our  history.  A  few  years  ago  no  one  in  the  Dio- 
Preservation  of  ^^^e  would  have  been  brave  enough  to 
Memorials  of  the  have  Suggested  that  historic  old  St. 
Past  Paul's  should  be  sold  for  any  purpose 

whatsoever.  If  the  spirit  and  policy  of  the  threatened 
movement  continue  unchecked,  and  this  generation  sells 
St.  Paul's,  there  is  no  precedent  to  deter  the  next  gen- 
eration, which  may  have  even  less  reverence  for  Co- 
lonial affairs  and  the  Revolution,  selling  both  Christ 
Church  and  St.  Peter's,  if  the  money  be  needed,  to  con- 
tinue, under  a  new  application  of  the  Cy  Pres  doctrine, 
some  activities  which  may  then  be  a  part  of  church 
work  and  now  undreamt  of. 

To  show  that  this  is  within  the  range  of  possibility, 
it  is  only  necessary  to  give  two  prominent  instances  in 

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which  buildings  of  great  historic  interest  escaped  de- 
struction. The  State  of  Pennsylvania,  by  the  act  of 
March  11,  1816,  P.  L.  109,^  authorized  the  sale  for 
$150,000  of  the  State  House,  the  State  House  Yard,  the 
Liberty  Bell  and  the  clock.     The  land  was  valuable,  the 

Liberty  Bell      building  was  regarded  as  old  material, 

State  House  and  the  Liberty  Bell  and  the  Clock  as 
Clock  junk.     This  caused  the  late  Chief  Jus- 

tice James  T.  Mitchell  to  remark,  in  delivering  the  opin- 
ion of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  in  the  appeal 
of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  in  1893  (154  Penna. 
State  Eeports,  page  621),  that,  ''it  was  a  sad  illustra- 
tion of  the  want  of  reverence  for  historical  and  patriotic 
associations  in  our  people  at  that  time."  The  citizens 
of  Philadelphia,  to  their  credit  let  it  be  said,  bought  the 
shrine  of  American  liberty  and  saved  it  from  destruc- 
tion and  desecration,  so  that  the  square  should  remain 
to  the  people  as  a  public  green  and  walk  forever. 

The  other  instance  was  in  1878,  when  it  was  seriously 
proposed  to  sell,  to  a  brewery,  Washington's  Headquar- 
ters at  Valley  Forge,  with  three  acres  of  surrounding 

Washington's  ground.  This  historic  shrine  was  only 
Headquarters  at    savcd    for    posterity    and    from    dese- 

Vaiiey  Forge  cration  by  a  society  which  then  alone 
seemed  alive  to  the  situation,  a  fraternal  organization, 
the  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of  America,  which  deserves 
great  credit  for  the  prompt  and  effective  measures  with 
which  the  emergency  was  met.^ 

2  See  letter  of  Eobert  Wharton  to  Thomas  Kittera,  Feb.  3,  1816,  Pa. 
Mag.  of  Hist,  and  Biog.,  Vol.  XL,  p.  316. 

3  Memorial  Association  Valley  Forge,  235,  Pa.  St.  Eep.,  206,  1912. 

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In  this  connection,  the  fact  that  the  majority  of  the 
citizens  of  Philadelphia  care  very  little  for  Christ 
Church,  St.  Peter's,  or  St.  Paul's,  must  not  be  over- 
looked. We  can  repeat  the  warning  of  that  well-known 
lawyer,  the  late  John  Hill  Martin,  Esq.,  who,  in  1877, 
remarked  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Chester,  Penna.: 
**  Apart  from  the  mere  matter  of  feeling,  our  ancestors 
bought  of  the  church  the  right  of  burial,  and  such  a 
right  was  sold,  knowing  it  was  to  exist  for  all  time. 
And  whatever  may  be  the  rights  of  the 

^^^^Deaa  *^^     present  congregation,  the  dead  and  their 

descendants  have  rights  which  cannot  be 

successfully  resisted.     I  trust  the  day  will  never  come 

when  the  congregation  to  save  their  purses  will  sell  the 

bones  of  their  ancestors." 

If  this  becomes  our  church  policy,  those  of  us  who 
disapprove  of  it  can  only  mourn  and  say : 

"  They  all  are  passing  from  the  land, 
Those  churches  old  and  gray; 
In  which  our  forefathers  used  to  stand, 
In  years  gone  by,  to  pray." 

In  passing,  it  might  be  added  that  Mr.  Justice  Brown 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  in  deliver- 
ing the  opinion  of  that  Court  in  the  case  of  Pearsall  v. 
Great  Northern  E.  R.  Co.  (161  U.  S.  Rep.  646,  1895, 
page  661),  said:  ''Even  before  the  Dartmouth  College 
case  was  decided,  it  was  held  by  this  Court  that  grants 

Grants  of  the    ^^  IsLJid  made  by  the  Crown  to  colonial 

Crown  to  Colonial  churches    were    irrevocable,    and    that 

Churches        property  purchased  or  devised  to  them, 

prior  to  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution,  could  not  be 

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^imot^  ot  &t  ^siuV0  (Episcopal  €^\iu^ 

devoted  to  other  purposes  by  the  states  which  succeeded 
to  the  sovereign  powers  of  the  colonies"  (Terrett  v. 
Taylor,  9  Cranch  43;  Town  of  Pawlett  v.  Clark,  9 
Cranch,  292 ;  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel 
V.  New  Haven,  8  Wheaton,  464).  President  Judge 
Joseph  Allison  of  Philadelphia,  in  March,  1867,  in  the 
case  of  First  Presbyterian  Church  v.  Second  Presby- 
terian Church  (Brewster's  Rep.,  Vol.  11,  p.  374),  held 
that  the  removal  of  the  remains  of  persons  interred  in 
a  burial  ground,  without  the  consent  of  their  families, 
may  be  enjoined  at  the  suit  of  such  families  as  have 
the  right  to  inter  in  said  ground. 

The  law  as  summed  up  by  Judge  Sharswood  in  Kin- 
caid's  Appeal,  66  Pa.  State  Reports,  page  411,  is: 

1.  The  certificate  to  purchasers  of  lots  ''in  the  bury- 
ing-ground  of  the  church"  was  *'to  have  and  to  hold 
Judge  Sharswood's^l^^  ^^^^  l^^s  for  the  use  and  purpose, 

Opinion  in  re    and  subject  to  the  conditions  and  regula- 
Lot-hoiders      tions  mentioned  in  the  deed  of  trust  to 
the  trustees  of  said  church."    This  was  not  evidence 
of  a  grant  of  any  interest  in  the  soil. 

2.  The  certificate  was  the  grant  of  a  license  or  privi- 
lege to  make  interments  in  the  lots  described,  exclusive 
of  others,  so  long  as  the  ground  should  remain  the 
*'burying-ground  of  the  church." 

3.  Whenever  by  lawful  authority  the  ground  should 
cease  to  be  a  burying-ground,  the  lot-holder's  right  and 
property  ceased. 

4.  When  it  became  necessary  to  vacate  the  ground 
for  burial,  all  the  lot-holder  could  claim,  was  to  have 
notice  and  an  opportunity  of  removing  the  bodies  and 

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'Mutst  &^at0\sioori*si  i3Dpinion 


monuments;  on  his  failure  to  do  so  they  could  be  re- 
moved by  others. 

5.  The  lot-holder  accepted  the  grant  on  this  condition. 

6.  The  grant  of  a  pew  in  perpetuity  does  not  give  an 
absolute  right  as  the  grant  of  land  in  fee. 

7.  The  pew-owner  takes  only  a  usufructuary  right. 

8.  If  the  building  be  destroyed  by  casualty  the  pew- 
owner's  right  is  gone. 

9.  If  the  church  has  to  be  rebuilt  on  the  same  or  a 
different  location  the  pew- owner  has  no  claim. 

10.  The  disinterment  of  a  body  is  a  misdemeanor  at 
common  law. 

11.  The  power  of  disinterment  is  a  police  power  and 
can  be  delegated  by  the  legislature  to  municipalities. 

12.  Every  right  from  an  absolute  ownership  to  an 
easement  is  held  subject  to  the  restriction  that  it  shall 
so  be  exercised  as  not  to  injure  others. 

13.  Every  purchaser  is  bound  to  know  that,  although 
at  the  time  of  his  purchase  the  exercise  of  his  right  may 
be  inoffensive,  it  may  become  otherwise  by  residence  of 
many  others  in  the  vicinity  and  must  yield  to  laws  for 
suppressing  nuisances. 

14.  The  owner  of  a  burial  lot  in  which  no  interment 
has  been  made,  loses  the  use  of  his  lot  by  a  law  prohibit- 
ing interments  there,  and  is  not  entitled  to  compensa- 
tion. 

15.  In  such  case  his  property  has  not  been  taken  for 
public  use. 

16.  The  state  has  the  right  to  regulate  the  use  of  all 
property  for  the  public  good. 

17.  Where  one  covenants  not  to  do  a  lawful  thing 

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^i&tot^  ot  fe»t.  ^anV0  Cpisicopal  €Wtc'^ 

and  the  legislature  afterwards  compels  him  to  do  it,  the 
law  repeals  the  covenant. 

This  case  is  also  reported  in  4  American  Law  Times, 
128.  Also,  see  as  to  burial  and  removal  of  bodies: 
In  re  Stephen  Girard,  5  Clark  (Phila.)  68  (1860)  King, 

Other  Legal  J.;  Wynkoop  V.  Wynkoop,  42  Penna. 
Opinions  St.  Rep.  293  (1862)  Read,  J.;  Lourie  v. 
Piatt,  11  Phila.  303  (1876)  Finletter,  J.;  Francis  Es- 
tate, 75  Penna.  State  Rep.  225  (1874)  Murcur,  J. ;  Scott 
V.  Reilly,  16  Phila.  Rep.,  p.  106  (1883)  Finletter,  J.; 
Fox  V.  Gordon,  16  Phila.  Rep.,  p.  185  (1883)  Thayer,  P. 
J.;  Campher  v.  Poulson,  19  Phila.  Rep.,  p.  234  (1887), 
Biddle,  J. ;  Cooney  v.  Laurence,  11  Pa.  County  Court, 
p.  79  (1891)  Per  Curiam;  Comth.  v.  Susquehanna  Coal 
Co.,  6  Lane.  Law  Review,  p.  107  (1889),  Rice,  P.  J.; 
Harding's  Estate,  21  Pa.  County  Ct.,  p.  641  (1898), 
Ferguson,  J.;  Congregation ShaaraiShomayimi;. Moss, 
22  Penna.  Supr.  Ct.  p.  356  (1903),  W.  D.  Porter,  J.; 
Pettigrew  v.  Pettigrew,  207  Pa.  St.  Rep.  313  (1904), 
Mitchell,  C.  J.  These  cases  are  interesting  as  indicat- 
ing how  the  courts  have  viewed  the  questions  involved. 

Bearing  on  this  subject,  the  legislature  of  Pennsyl- 
vania passed  several  acts,  viz.:  (1)  Act  May  19,  1874 
(P.  L.  208),  authorizing  the  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions 
Acts  of  Assembly  ^^  make  such  orders  and  decrees  for  the 
in  re  regulation  and  care  of  burial  grounds 

Bunai  Grounds  ^j^en  any  such  burial  ground  shall  be- 
come  so  neglected  as  in  the  opinion  of  said  court  to 
become  a  public  nuisance,  the  Court  may  direct  the  re- 
moval of  the  dead  therefrom  to  some  other  properly 
regulated  burying  ground.     (2)  The  Act  May  13,  1876 

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Sitt^  ot  Si00tmb\if  in  te  Burial  <3toiinrj0 

(P.  L.  159),  and  (3)  the  Act  April  18,  1877  (P.  L.  54), 
were  further  supplements  changing  the  title  of  the  act 
of  1874,  and  extending  the  power  of  the  Court  to  cases 
to  order  removal  where  interments  have  ceased  and 
such  remains  interfere  with  religious  buildings  or 
trusts. 

These  acts  were  passed  upon  by  the  Supreme  Court 
in  Craig  v.  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Pittsburgh, 
88  Pa.  St.  Rep.,  p.  42,  and  sustained  by  that  Court,  Jan- 
uary 6,  1879,  in  an  opinion  by  Mr.  Justice  Paxson. 

Chief  Justice  Daniel  Agnew  entertained  strong  views 
upon  the  sacredness  of  burial  grounds,  as  may  be  gath- 
ered from  the  following  taken  from  his  vigorous  dis- 
sent: 

''I  cannot  assent  to  the  decision  in  this  case,"  said 
Judge  Agnew.  ''In  my  judgment,  it  offends  against 
natural  feeling  and  constitutional  law.     I  grant  the 

Judge  Agnew's    ^^^^*  °^  ^^^  ^^^^^'  i^  *^®  exercise  of  her 

Opinion  on  the  police  power  to  regulate  graveyards  for 

Sacredness  of     the  public  good,  and  to  remove  decaying 

Burial  Giounds  •  x!         ti^  j.*  i>    j.i 

remams    tor    the    preservation    of    the 

health  of  the  citizens.  I  grant  her  right  of  removal  by 
way  of  eminent  domain  when  a  great  public  interest 
requires  it,  but  in  compensation  to  those  who  have  ac- 
quired a  right  of  sepulture  by  contract.  Yet  even  in 
this  respect  the  State  has  shown  her  sense  of  propriety 
and  right  in  the  General  Railroad  Law  of  1849,  Sec.  10, 
by  excepting  burial  places  from  the  powers  of  a  com- 
pany to  appropriate  lands,  but  I  deny  the  right  of  re- 
moval for  individual  or  private  interest,  whether  it  be 
for  building  a  lecture-room  for  a  church  congregation 
or  a  Sabbath  school  room.  Its  purpose  is  to  save 
money  by  taking  ground  appropriated  for  the  dead.    A 

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religious  congregation  is  a  private  body,  and  its  inter- 
ests are  individual,  not  public.  Thus  to  coin  money 
out  of  the  bones  of  the  dead,  is  to  violate  a  purchaser's 
right  of  sepulture,  contrary  to  the  instincts  of  the  race 
and  the  keenest  sensibilities  of  the  heart. 

*' Among  all  tribes  and  nations,  savage  and  civilized, 
the  resting  places  of  the  dead  are  regarded  as  sacred. 
There  memory  loves  to  linger  and  plant  the  choicest 
flowers ;  there  the  sorrowing  heart  renews  the  past,  re- 
kindles into  life  the  viewless  forms  of  the  dead,  revives 
the  scenes  where  once  they  moved,  and  recalls  the 
happy  hours  of  love  and  friendship.  There  parent  and 
child,  husband  and  wife,  relatives  and  friends,  with 
broken  spirits  and  crushed  hopes,  revisit  often  the  spot 
where  they  deposited  their  dead.  Who  does  not  feel 
the  fountains  of  his  heart  broken  up  and  the  warm 
gushing  of  emotion,  when  standing  over  the  green  sod 
which  covers  the  departed;  'Wherever  the  simple  stone 
is  placed,  or  the  marble  monument  is  reared,  spontane- 
ous thought  inscribes  upon  it'  'sacred  to  the  memory.' 

''This  sacredness  is  evidenced  by  one  of  the  most 
touching  incidents  of  Scripture.  When  Abraham  stand- 
ing by  the  dead  body  of  Sarah,  addressed  the  Sons  of 
Heth,  saying,  'I  am  a  stranger  and  sojourner  with  you, 
give  me  a  possession  of  a  burying  place  with  you,  that 
I  may  bury  my  dead  out  of  my  sight : '  they  offered  him 
a  choice  of  their  sepultures ;  but  Abraham  intent  upon 
a  possession  of  his  own,  where  the  remains  of  her  he 
had  loved  might  repose  in  security,  purchased  the  field 
of  Machpelah  of  Ephron,  the  Hittite,  for  four  hundred 
shekels  of  silver.  Even  more  touching  is  the  reference 
to  Jacob,  who  dying  in  Egypt  surrounded  by  his  chil- 
dren, charged  them  and  said  unto  them  'I  am  to  be 
gathered  unto  my  people,  bury  me  with  my  fathers  in 
the  cave  that  is  in  the  field  of  Machpelah.     There  they 

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FAMILY    VAULT    WILLIAM    CUMMINGS,    1917. 


SLtcW^^op  ^tentins!i&V0  Sipptsd 


buried  Abraham  and  Sarab,  bis  wife,  tbere  tbey  buried 
Isaac  and  Rebecca,  bis  wife,  and  tbere  I  buried  Leab.' 
Tradition  has  preserved  to  tbis  day,  tbe  identity  of  tbe 
cave  and  tbe  tombs  of  tbose  ancient  worthies,  undis- 
turbed even  by  tbe  Moslem,  wbose  mosque  covers  and 
protects  tbeir  resting  places. ' ' 

Tbe  latest  act  is  tbat  of  May  23,  1887  (P.  L.  168), 
wbicb  I  will  refer  to  later. 

His  Grace  Arcbbisbop  Edmond  F.  Prendergast  of 

tbe  Roman  Catholic  Church  of  Philadelphia,  in  1915, 

Archbishop       ^^^  Sustained  by  the  Court  in  refusing 

Prendergast's  to  permit  the  body  of  one  Mary  K. 
Appeal  Hoppe,  twenty-one  years  after  burial,  to 
be  removed  from  the  Cathedral  Cemetery  to  Laurel 
Hill  upon  tbe  application  of  her  husband  and  children, 
stating  ' '  It  is  my  duty  to  guard  the  repose  of  the  dead 
who  are  buried  in  the  Catholic  Cemeteries  of  the  dio- 
cese of  which  I  am  the  bead"  (Hoppe  v.  Cathedral 
Cemetery  et  al.,  24  Penna.  Dist.  rep.,  344).  Why 
should  not  the  Episcopal  Church  be  equally  vigilant  in 
guarding  the  repose  of  her  dead? 

In  July,  1904,  it  was  proposed  to  sell  the  Old  Pine 
Street  Presbyterian  Church  and  burial  ground,  Fourth 

Proposed  Sale  ^nd  Pine  Streets.*  Their  patriotic 
Prevented  of  Old  pastor,   the  late   Rev.  Dr.   Hughes   0. 

Pine    Street  . 

Presbyterian      Gibbons,  earnestly  objected  to  the  prop- 
Church  osition  and  prevented  its  consummation. 
What  he  said  in  protest  is  equally  true  of  St.  Paul's. 
I  quote  a  few  sentences  from  his  sermon. 

4  Captain  Charles  Boss,  Seventh  Captain,  First  Troop  Philadelphia  City 
Cavalry,  1772-1817,  is  here  buried.  The  City  Troop,  in  1818,  erected 
over  his  grave  a  monument  of  white  marble  surmounted  by  a  bronze 
trophy  of  arms.  25 


l^i^toti^  ot  &t  paurjEi  episcopal  Cj^utc^ 

''Many  are  buried  here  whose  names  are  written  in 
the  early  history  and  development  of  our  nation  and 
who  laid  down  their  lives  in  the  memorable  struggle 
that  our  land  might  be  free. 

''Desecration  of  these  dead  would  be  the  worse  by 
reason  of  the  fact  that  the  great  majority  of  the  bones 
are  those  of  members  of  the  church,  among  them  those 
who  stood  high  in  the  counsels  of  that  church  and  la- 
bored hard  for  its  growth  and  development. 

"One  physician  has  declared  that  the  bones  of  the 
dead  have  been  in  the  ground  so  long  that  they  must 
have  become  dust.  Under  such  circumstances  any  at- 
tempt to  remove  the  bodies  would  result  in  the  most 
disgraceful  desecration  and  it  would  be  impossible  to 
preserv^e  their  identity." 

Passing  the  question  of  St.  Paul's  family,  church,  and 
historic  relations,  which  to  some  may  seem  sentimental, 
and  viewing  the  proposed  sale  solely  in  the  cold,  com- 

Poor  Business  mercial  aspect  of  dollars  and  cents. 
Proposition  it  will  not,  as  a  mere  business  propo- 
sition, produce  the  sum  of  money,  which  those  who  ad- 
vocate it  claim.  Either  they  have  not  studied  the  sub- 
ject, or,  having  studied,  have  not  understood.  "An  un- 
wise man  doth  not  well  consider  this :  and  a  fool  doth 
not  understand  it,"  says  the  psalmist.^  They  expect 
to  realize  from  $50,000  to  $60,000,  and  let  it  be  admitted 
for  the  present  purpose  that  this  amount  represents 
the  fair  market  value.  To  buy  the  necessary  ground 
in  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery,  or  a  cemetery  of  like  charac- 
ter, and  separately  exhume  the  bodies,  recofifin,  remove 
and  reinter  them,   including  the  removal  of  tablets, 

6  Psalm  92 :  6. 

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Sict0  ot  agijSemftIp  ajsf  to  Wit-intttmtnt 

gravestones  and  vaults,  and  make  provision  for  their 
perpetual  care  and  maintenance,  would  require  an  ex- 
penditure of  from  forty  to  fifty  thousand  dollars,  henct; 
there  would  be  little  balance,  if  any,  for  the  projectea 
diocesan  home  of  the  City  Mission.  Judged  commer- 
mercially,  therefore,  it  is  not  a  pajring  proposition.  I, 
of  course,  assume  that  the  Tmstees  do  not  contemplate 
merely  plowing  up  the  ground  and  arranging  with  some 
general  contractor,  the  lowest  bidder,  to  remove  such 
bones  as  he  may  be  able  to  recover,  and  reinter  them 
in  some  cemetery  organized  for  corporate  profit,  the 
trustees  of  which  would  accept  them  in  bulk  and  charge 
accordingly,  even  though  this  were  the  sole  method  of 
obtaining  the  best  financial  results  from  the  sale. 

The  act  of  Assembly  approved  by  the  Governor,  May 

23,  1887  (P.  L.  168),  expressly  provides  that  each  body 

to  be  removed  shall  be  separately  reinterred  in  some 

Act  of  Assembly  Suitable  burial  ground  and  each  grave 

as  to  to  be  marked  by  headstones,  et  cetera. 

Re-interment     rpj^jg  ^^^  confers  jurisdiction  upon  the 

Court  of  Common  Pleas  to  order  removals,  after  final 
hearing  of  all  parties  in  interest,  but  it  also  expressly 
provides,  ''That  no  such  petition  shall  be  granted  ex- 
cept upon  condition  set  forth  in  the  decree  requiring 
the  petitioners  to  purchase  the  rights  of  all  lot-holders 
in  such  burial  grounds,  and  to  secure  the  consent  in 
writing  of  the  near  relatives  of  decedents  whenever 
such  relatives  shall  appear  as  parties  to  such  proceed- 
ings. And  provided  further,  That  any  party  in  inter- 
est may  appeal  from  the  decree  of  such  Court  within 

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thirty  days."  These  provisions  show  how  careful  and 
tender  is  the  law  in  safeguarding  the  burial  places  of 
the  dead.^ 

In  the  case  of  St.  Paul's,  our  ancestors  not  only 
bought  the  graves,  but  paid  forty  dollars  to  the  church 
for  the  privilege  of  erecting  a  gravestone  6  feet  by  3 
feet,  and  two  and  a  half  dollars  extra  for  every  square 
foot  of  ground,  besides  an  additional  sum  for  a  vault. 
The  church  corporation  in  Article  V  of  the  By-laws 
agreed : 

*' Every  Vault,  sunk  and  built  by  a  member  of  this 
Church,  shall  be  a  sacred  depository  for  the  deceased 
remains  of  the  family  of  such  member,  and  the  de- 

Eveiy  Vault  scendants  of  such  family  forever,  on 
a  Sacred  their  complying  with  the  rules  and  regu- 
Depository  lations  laid  by  the  Vestry  of  said  Church 
from  time  to  time ;  provided  always,  that  such  regula- 
tions do  not  infringe  the  rights  established  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  regular  and  sitting  members  in  said  Church 
(burying  in  such  vaults  or  elsewhere)  nor  the  descend- 
ant or  descendants  of  such  members  holding  a  vault, 
notwithstanding  the  said  descendant  or  descendants 
may  not  be  members  of  the  said  church,  they  shall  be 
entitled  to  the  same  privileges  as  if  they  were  actually 
members  so  long  as  the  said  Family  Vault  can  admit 
interments.  It  is  to  be  understood  that  the  aforesaid 
privilege  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  extend  to  any 

« In  re  German  Roman  Catholic  Holy  Trinity  Burial  ground,  Passyunk 
Ave.  and  Washington  Ave.,  Philadelphia,  Quarter  Sessions,  Philadelphia, 
Decree  January  18,  1906,  John  M.  Campbell,  Esq.,  Atty.  in  re  Trinity 
Episcopal  Church,  in  the  district  of  Southwark,  Philadelphia,  see  report 
of  Edward  S.  Sayres,  Esq.,  Master,  and  Decree  Quarter  Sessions,  Phila- 
delphia, May  8,  1913. 

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FAMILY   VAULT    OF    EDWIN    FORREST,    1917. 


IBlequeiSt  foe  ^i^totif  ot  C|utc5 


but  such  as  may  be  the  actual  descendants  of  the 
Family,  by  which  the  Vault  was  built." 

The  contract  therefore  is  that '  'Every  Vault,  sunk  and 
built  by  a  member  of  this  church,  shall  be  a  sacred  de- 
pository for  the  deceased  remains  of  the  family  of  such 
member,  and  the  descendants  of  such  family  forever.'' 

This  is  plain  and  easily  understood.  And  the  act  of 
1887,  just  quoted,  requires  the  Trustees  of  the  Diocese, 
should  they  ask  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  to  order 
the  removal  of  those  buried  in  St.  Paul's,  to  purchase 
the  rights  of  all  lot-holders,  and  to  secure  the  consent 
in  writing  of  the  near  relatives  before  each  body  is  re- 
moved, which  must  be  separately  reinterred,  and  each 
grave  marked  by  headstones. 

During  the  agitation  and  discussion  which  this  entire 
subject  has  engendered,  several  gentlemen,  representa- 
tives of  families  prominent  in  Pennsylvania  and  for- 

Request  for  merly  of  St.  Paul's  Congregation,  have 
History  of  Church  requested  me  to  prepare  a  brief  history 
of  the  parish,  to  put  into  print  some  memorial  of  its 
useful  past,  for  the  information  of  those  who  are  con- 
sidering what  best  to  do  for  its  preservation  in  the 
present  crisis. 

The  tide  has  ebbed  and,  like  many  a  goodly  ship  who 
has  nobly  done  her  part  at  sea,  has  left  Old  St.  Paul's 
on  the  shore.    Other  men  and  other  times  are  here,  a 

Ebb  of  the  new  generation,  who,  unmindful,  perhaps 
Tide  ignorant  or  forgetful  of  her  great  past 

in  their  Church  History,  now  seriously  propose  to  coin 
money  by  her  sale  and  demolition. 

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The  Holy  Eoman  Catholic  Church  from  the  earliest 
times  has  been  awake  to  the  fact  that  those  relics,  places 
and  buildings  which  make  her  history,  especially  old 
Consecrated      churches  and  cathedrals,  are  among  her 
Places  City's     greatest  assets.     This  is  so,  even  after 
Greatest  Asset    they  are  in  ruins  and  nothing  remains 
except  a  few  columns  and  pilasters,   or  perhaps,   a 
chancel,  nave  or  part  of  the  choir,  to  indicate  the  site 
of  the  original  building.     These  relics  are  prized,  and 
the  places  visited  yearly  by  innumerable  thousands 
of  pious  pilgrims  from  all  over  the  world,  as  was  Can- 
terbury after  Archbishop  Becket's  death,  who  regard 
them  with  profound  veneration  and  respect.     They  are 
consecrated  places  and  nothing  would  tempt  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church  to  sell  them. 

This  was  originally  our  church  policy,  and  why  aban- 
don it  now?  Let  us  not  destroy  St.  Paul's,  one  of  our 
historic  assets,  and  have  posterity  regard  us  as  vandals, 
or, more  mortifying  still,  as  without  historic  sense  or  rev- 
erence, as  merely  a  commercial  people  of  small  breadth 
of  view  who  possessed  good  intentions,  without  knowl- 
edge. Let  posterity  see  that  we  have  all  the  reverence 
felt  in  the  old  world  for  the  dead  and  their  burial  places. 
General  tentative  suggestions  as  to  the  proper  dis- 
position of  St.  Paul's  have  been  made: 

1.  That  the  church  building  be  restored  as  it  was  in 
colonial  days  with  high  pews  and  used  as  it  is  to-day  for 

Tentative       occasional  services,  since  there  are  not 
Suggestions      enough  people  to  make  a  congregation. 

2.  That  the  building  remain  as  it  is  and  be  made  a 
museum,  similar  to  the  Old  South  Church  on  Washing- 

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SDebt  to  &t.  ^mV0  2Deati 


ton  street,  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  services  being 
held  as  at  present. 

3.  Adding  to  tlie  first  suggestion,  such  necessary- 
changes  as  would  make  the  front  and  sides  usable  as 
a  recreation  center,  an  open  breathing  place  for  the 
people  of  the  neighborhood,  as  has  been  done  in  sev- 
eral instances  with  old  churches  in  London.  This 
would  necessitate  placing  the  tombstones  and  tablets 
against  the  walls  of  the  adjoining  buildings,  and  per- 
haps turning  the  building,  ground  and  graves  over  to 
the  city  of  Philadelphia  in  trust,  if  it  would  accept  and 
maintain  it  for  this  purpose. 

All  these  plans  would  require  the  expenditure  of 
some  money.  The  first  plan  is,  seemingly,  the  best,  if 
a  sufficient  number  of  people  are  interested  to  raise  the 
money.  A  moderate  sum  of  money  in  trust,  would  in- 
sure for  all  time  the  preservation  of  this  historic  church, 
and  the  repose  of  its  heroic  dead  who  helped  secure  our 
liberty  and  make  us  a  nation. 

To  these  men,  and  their  associates,  we  owe  our  com- 
mon country,  that  we  are  one  people,  one  nation,  one 
Debt  to  St.  Paul's  power.  To  them  we  owe  our  flag  and 
Dead  all    that    it    typifies    of    freedom    civil 

and  religious— 

"  The  Star-Spangled  Banner, 
Oh  long  may  it  wave, 
O'er  the  land  of  the  free  and  the 
Home  of  the  brave." 

These  men  deserve  well  of  posterity,  and  I  cannot 
conceive  that,  the  patriotic  citizens  of  Pennsylvania,, 
The  Colonial  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  The  Pennsyl- 

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vania  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  of  which  some  were 
members,  The  Society  of  Colonial  "Wars  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, The  Societies  of  Colonial  Dames  in  Pennsyl- 
Patriotic  Societies  vania,  The  Pennsylvania  Society  Sons 

Based  on  Services  ^  ^^^  Revolution,  The  Patriotic  Order 
of  St.  Paul's  ' 

Dead  Sons  of  America,  whose  very  existence, 

as  organizations,  is  based  upon  the  services  to  our  Com- 
monwealth and  Country  of  men  like  Col.  Thomas  Proc- 
tor,^ General  Walter  Stewart,  Col.  Blathwaite  Jones, 
Captain  Gibbs  Jones,  Capt.  John  Maepherson,^  Briga- 

7  Thomas  Proctor,  born  in  Ireland  in  1739,  accompanied  his  father, 
Francis  Proctor,  to  Philadelphia.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  Car- 
penter's Company  in  1772  and  was  instrumental  in  obtaining  the  use  of 
Carpenter 's  Hall  for  the  meetings  of  the  Continental  Congress.  In  1775, 
he  was  commissioned  Captain  of  an  artillery  company,  which  command 
was  raised  to  a  battalion  the  following  year,  and  he  appointed  its 
major.  He  was  commissioned  colonel  in  1777,  with  instructions  to  raise 
an  entire  regiment  of  artillery.  This  regiment,  under  Wayne  at  Brandy- 
wine,  was  engaged  in  the  artillery  duel  at  Chad's  Ford,  where  Colonel 
Proctor 's  horse  was  shot  under  him.  It  became  part  of  the  Continental 
rarmy  in  1778,  and  he  received  his  commission  as  colonel  of  artillery, 
May  8,  1779,  and  marched  to  Wyoming.  By  commission  of  Congress, 
lie  served  as  Major  of  Artillery  from  December  25,  1782,  until  October 
22,  1783;  Major  of  the  Artillery  battalion  of  "Militia  of  the  City  and 
liiberties  of  Philadelphia"  from  May  12,  1792,  until  April  12,  1793, 
when  he  was  promoted  Brigadier  General.  At  the  outbreak  of  the 
Whiskey  Insurrection,  in  command  of  the  first  brigade,  he  marched 
against  the  insurgents  August  7,  1794.  He  became  Major  General  of  the 
Philadelphia  militia  June  7,  1796,  and  when  war  threatened  with  France, 
he  assured  Governor  Mifflin  of  his  cordial  support  in  the  event  of  hos- 
tilities. He  filled  the  office  of  High  Sheriff  from  October  20,  1783,  to 
October  14,  1785,  and,  as  City  Lieutenant  of  Philadelphia,  superintended 
the  celebration  of  the  arrival  of  General  Washington,  November  23,  1790. 
A  founder  of  the  Sons  of  Saint  Tammany  of  Philadelphia,  he  was  also 
an  original  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 
He  died  at  his  residence  in  Philadelphia,  Arch  Street,  between  Fourth 
and  Fifth,  March  16,  1806,  and  was  buried  with  military  honors  in  St. 
Paul's  ground.  Thus  closed  the  earthly  career  of  one  of  the  most 
brilliant  artillerists  of  the  Eevolution.     May  he  rest  in  peace. 

8  For   account   of  Capt.   John   Macpherson,   see   Thompson   Westcott's 
"Historic  Mansions  and  Buildings  of  Philadelphia,"  pp.  212  et  seq. 


COL.    BLAITHWAITE   JONES. 

BORN    JUNE,    1726;    DIED   AUGUST,    1789. 


CHIEF    ENGINEER    AT    BILLIN8P0RT,    1777, 
UNDER   GENERAL   WASHINGTON. 


^attiotit  fbotittie0 


dier  Genl.  William  Macpherson,®  and  others  buried  in 
the  churchyard;  or  The  Historical  and  Genealogical  So- 
cieties of  Pennsylvania,  which  cherish  and  preserve 
their  memories  and  deeds;  or  The  First  Troop  Phila- 
delphia City  Cavalry,  the  Masonic  Lodges,  Nos.  2, 
3,  and  Lodge,  No.  19,  to  which  many  of  them  be- 
longed, as  well  as  the  Grand  Lodge  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons  of  Pennsylvania,  of  which  Thomas 
Proctor,  Blathwaite  Jones,^^  Gibbs,  Jones,!^  David  Hall, 
John  Wood,  Dr.  George  Glentworth  and  others  were 
officers  and  distinguished  members,  will  permit  the  sale 
and  destruction  of  this  shrine  and  the  removal  of  the 
historic  dead  without  protest  and  active  opposition. 
Duty  of  the  The  duty  of  these  Societies  and  of  patri- 
Diocese  otic  citizens  of  Pennsylvania  generally, 
especially  members  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  is  to  pre- 

9  See  sketch  of  Brigadier  General  William  Macpherson  and  some  of 
his  descendants,  in  * '  Descendants  of  Joran  Kyn, ' '  by  Gregory  B.  Keen, 
LL.B.,  pp.  149  et  seq. 

10  Blathwaite  Jones,  son  of  Gibbs  and  Jane  (Crapp)  Jones,  baptized 
at  Christ  Church,  July  21,  1726;  died  at  Philadelphia  shortly  before 
August  10,  1789.  His  paternal  grandfather,  John  Jones,  was  a  member 
of  Philadelphia  Common  Council  1691,  alderman  1701  and  one  of  the 
justices  of  the  County  Courts.  In  early  life  Blathwaite  Jones  followed 
the  sea  and  was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  Lodge  No.  2  of 
Pennsylvania.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolution  he  espoused  the 
American  cause  and  was  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  Committee  of 
Safety  and  of  the  Provincial  Convention  of  January  23,  1775.  When. 
Congress  ordered  the  construction  of  fortifications  at  Billingsport  for 
the  defence  of  Philadelphia,  he  was,  on  February  15,  1777,  appointed 
Chief  Engineer  of  Construction,  with  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel.  It 
was  here  that  he  obstructed  the  channel  of  the  Delaware  River  and  built 
the  chevaux-de-frise. 

11  Gibbs  Jones,  son  of  Blathwaite  Jones  by  his  first  wife  Jane,  born 
March  5,  1748,  was  baptized  at  Christ  Church  and  predeceased  his  father. 
On  February  9,  1776,  he  was  appointed  Captain  Lieutenant  of  the  Artil- 
lery Company  of  the  United  Colonies  raised  for  Canadian  service.  Mem- 
ber of  Lodge  No.  2,  F.  and  A.  M.  Among  his  descendants  was  the 
lately  deceased  and  well  known  physician,  John  B.  Shober. 

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l^ijStotg  of  &t  pauPiS  CpiiScopal  C^urcS 

serve  it,  and  I  think  there  will  be  no  failure  or  neglect 
of  this  duty,  now  that  the  matter  is  presented  to  them 
for  consideration  and  action.  It  also  should  appeal 
to  the  Bishop  and  clergy  of  the  Diocese,  who,  I 
confidently  expect,  will  by  voice  and  pen  express  their 
disapproval  of  any  sale  of  this  church  and  its  ground, 
vaults  and  graves. 

In  response,  therefore,  to  the  before  mentioned  re- 
quest, that  some  memorial  of  St.  Paul's  be  prepared,  I 
herewith  submit,  in  connection  with  my  appeal  for  its 
preservation,  the  subjoined  outline  of  its  past,  which 
may  some  day,  under  other  hands,  grow  into  a  more 
comprehensive  church  history  than  I  have  the  time, 
amid  pressing  official  duties,  to  prepare. 


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April  30,  1917. 


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OUTLINE   OF  THE  HISTORY  OF  ST. 

CHURCH 


PAUL'S 


sand    souls. 


Eighteen 
Thousand  Souls 


^^^    T  the  time  of  its  organization  in  1760,  St.  Paul's  was 
^■r%  the  third  Church  of  England  congregation  in 

^^1^         Penn's  fair  city  of  Philadelphia,  which  then 
^^^     ^^     had  nearly  reached  the  age  of  four  score  years, 
and  had  a  living  progeny  of  eighteen  thou- 
By   the    City   of   Philadelphia,    is   meant   the 
the  original  city,  two  miles  long  and  a  mile 
wide,  bounded  on  the  north  by  Vine  street, 
and  on  the  south  by  South  street,  and  extending  east  and 
Original  ^^^^  from  the  Delaware  to  the  Schuylkill, 

City  containing  1,280  acres,  or  as  it  was,  until  the 

consolidation  in  1854,  by  which  the  twenty-eight  villages  or 
districts,  Southwark,  Northern  Liberties,  Moyamensing,  Spring 
Garden,  Kensington,  Richmond,  etc.,  became  the  city  of 
Philadelphia  as  it  exists  to-day.  Christ  Church,  which  be- 
longed to  the  first  parish  or  congregation,  begun  in  1695,  was 
completed  by  May,  1747,  except  the  steeple,  which  was  fin- 
ished in  1754.  St.  Peter's,  the  second,  on  Society  Hill,^ 
incepted    in    1753,^    was    opened    for    divine    service,    Sep- 

1  Society  Hill,  from  the  Free  Society  of  Traders  which  originally  owned 
the  land  from  river  to  river,  including  the  hill  at  or  about  Front  and 
Pine  Streets. 

2  At  Christ  Church  vestry  meeting  March  19,  1753,  the  Eev.  Dr.  Jenney 
represented  that  some  gentlemen  from  the  south  end  of  the  city  had 

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"f^i^tot^f  ot  &t  pmV0  episcopal  Cj^utcg 

tember  4,  1761,  and  though  sometimes  called  a  **  chapel  of 
case"  was,  **in  every  respect  whatever,"  "upon  an  equal 
footing  with  Christ  Church,"  and  the  Con- 
gregations of  the  two  churches  were  by  vote 
of  the  vestry,  August  19,  1761,  to  "be  styled  the  united  Con- 
gregations of  Christ  Church  and  St.  Peter 's. ' '     This  was  rati- 
fied by  the  Proprietary  Charter  of  June  24,  1765,  which  Con- 
stituted the  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  the 
United  Churches  of  Christ  Church  and  St. 

St.  Peter's        Peter's  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia  in  the 
Church 

Province    of    Pensylvania,    a    body    politic. 

Gloria  Dei,  the  Swedes  Church  at  Wicacoa,  though  dedicated 
July  2,  1700,  was  of  the  Lutheran  denomination,  not  in  con- 
nection with  the  Church  of  England,  by  whom  it  was  subse- 
quently absorbed,  and  St.  James  at  Kingsessing  and  Christ 
Church,  Upper  Merion,  though  possessed  of  church  buildings, 
the  first  in  1760,  the  latter  in  1763,  continued  under  the 
mother  church  at  Wicacoa.' 

The  Church  of  England  adherents  had  no  settled  clergy- 
man of  their  own  in  Penn's  Quaker  Colony  until  1698,  when 
Henry  Compton,  Bishop  of  London,  sent  the  Rev.  Thomas 

Clayton  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  found  a 
First  Church  ^  .         . 

of  England        congregation  of  fifty  persons*  which,  m  two 

Clergyman  in      years,  increased  to  seven  hundred.     Clayton 

1  a  e  p  la        ^^^  called  by  the  Quakers,  the  minister  of 

acquainted  him  of  their  intention  to  build  a  new  church  and  desired  his 
opinion  and  encouragement.  This  was  the  first  movement  in  reference 
to  the  building  of  St.  Peter's  Church.  The  next  signal  step  in  this 
direction  was  the  memorial  to  the  Penns,  August  1,  1754,  praying  for 
the  grant  of  one  hundred  and  four  feet  of  ground  belonging  to  the 
Proprietary  on  the  west  side  of  Third  Street,  bounded  north  by  Pine 
Street,  for  a  church  and  yard,  and  signed  by  eighty-six  divers  inhabitants 
of  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  This  lot  was  subsequently  enlarged  by  pur- 
chase to  the  westward  extending  the  church-yard  to  Fourth  Street. — 
Dorr's  "History  of  Christ  Church,"  pp.  102-3;  " Sesquicentennial  Year 
Book,  Saint  Peter's  Parish,"  pp.  xxiv-v. 

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With,  Wiit^ath  fbt^saU 


the  doctrine  of  devils.  The  Bishop  of  London,  by  virtue  of  a 
clause  in  Charles  II  's  Charter  to  Penn,  was  authorized,  upon 
the  request  of  twenty  inhabitants,  to  appoint  a  chaplain  to 
minister  in  Pennsylvania,  which  provision  was  inserted  at 
the  suggestion  of  Bishop  Compton^  whose  foresight  in  this  re- 
spect is  much  to  be  commended.  In  1695,  the  required  num- 
ber had  met,  appointed  a  vestry  and  purchased  a  lot  of 
ground  one  hundred  feet  front  on  Second  Street,  on  which, 
according  to  Gabriel  Thomas'  publication  of  1698,  ''a  very 
fine  church ' '  had  been  ' '  built  in  the  year  1695. ' '«  This  latter 
statement  is  corroborated  by  Colonel  Quarry's  letter  of  Janu- 
ary 18,  1696,  to  Governor  Nicholson  in  which  he  thanks  him 
for  ''assisting  us  to  build  our  Church,  which  being  now  fin- 
ished, &c."^ 

The  Reverend  Richard  Sewell  of  St.  Stephen's  Parish,^ 
Cecil  County,  Maryland,  was  perhaps  the  first  to  hold  the 
Church  of  England  services  in  Philadelphia,  making  occasional 

Rev.  Richard  visits  to  the  city  for  that  purpose.  Under 
Sewell  date  of  March  26,  1698,  J.  Arrowsmith  writ- 

ing from  Philadelphia  to  Governor  Nicholson  says:  ''We 
have  a  full  congregation  and  some  are  very  desirous  to  re- 
ceive the  sacrament  if  it  could  be  administered  at  Easter.  I 
did  speak  to  Mr.  SewelP  who  gave  me  a  promise  to  come." 

sAcrelius,  "History  of  New  Sweden,"  pp.  349-50  (Memoirs  of  the 
Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  vol.  xi). 

4  "Year  Book  and  Eemembrances  of  Christ  Church,  Philadelphia, 
1695-1912,"  pp.  10,  16. 

5  Hazzard's  "Kegister  of  Pennsylvania,"  vol.  i,  pp.  269-70. 

6  "History  of  Pennsylvania,"  by  Gabriel  Thomas,  London,  1698,  p.  51. 

7  Perry's  "Historical  Collections  Relating  to  the  American  Colonial 
Church, ' '  vol.  ii,  p.  5. 

8  Philip  Barratt,  the  first  of  this  surname  in  Maryland,  a  parishioner  of 
St.  Stephens,  Cecil  County,  in  1678,  was  married  by  Mr.  Sewell,  who 
baptized  his  youngest  son  Philip  Barratt,  Jr.,  from  whom  the  writer  also 
descends. 

^9  Further  notices  of  Mr,  Sewell  will  be  found  in  the  Acts  of  Dr.  Bray's 
"Visitations"    reprinted    in    Hawk's    "Ecclesiastical    Contributions" 

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^i0tot^  ot  &t  pauriS  episcopal  CSutcJ 

In  the  following  November,  another  letter  to  Governor  Nichol- 
son speaks  of  "so  good  a  divine  as  Mr.  Clayton"^"  being  at 
Christ  Church, 

St.  Paul's  Church  was  formed  principally  by  persons  who 
were  attached  to  Christ  Church,  though  some  were  primarily 

Presbyterians    and    Lutherans.      They    as- 
Formed  Mainly  ,,-,«,      ^  •  ^ 
from  Christ       sembled  for  the  first  time  as  a  new  Congre- 

Church  gation,  June  22,  1760,  in  the  State  House, 

now  known  as  Independence  Hall,  and  some 
three  thousand  people  are  said  to  have  been  present. 

Two  days  later,  certain  articles  of  agreement"  for  raising 
money  to  purchase  ground  on  which  to  erect  a  church  build- 
ing, since  known  as  St.  Paul's  Church,  received  ninety- four 
signatures.  Of  this  number,  at  least  ten  had  been  signa- 
tories to  the  Memorial  to  the  Penns  in  1754,  for  ground  upon 
which  to  build  the  church,  later  St.  Peter's,  and  three  had 
lately  been  vestrymen  of  Christ  Church.  The  italicized 
names  in  the  subjoined  list  of  St.  Paul 's  subscribers  are  those 
of  the  memorialists  of  1754,  while  the  first  three  are  those  of 
the  late  Christ  Church  vestrymen.  The  brief  footnotes  show 
something  of  the  subscribers'  standing  in  the  community: 

(Maryland),  vol.  ii,  pp.  500,  523;  Dorr's  "History  of  Christ  Church," 
p.  418;  Barratt's  Chapel,  Papers  of  Delaware  Historical  Society,  Ivii, 
1911,  p.  20. 

10 ' '  Thomas  Clayton,  minister  of  the  Church  of  England,  died  at 
Sassafras,  in  Maryland  [of  yellow  fever],  and  here  is  another  from 
London  in  his  room,  happened  to  come  opportunely" — Isaac  Norris' 
letter  to  Jonathan  Dickinson  in  Jamaica,  dated  Philadelphia,  11 — 7  mo., 
1699.  Penn-Logan  Correspondence,  vol.  i,  p.  Iviii.  (Memoirs  of  the 
Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania). 

Additional  references  to  Thomas  Clayton  will  be  found  in  Perry's 
"Historical  Collections  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,"  vol.  i,  pp. 
13,  14,  15,  42,  47,  49,  68;  Anderson's  "Colonial  Church,"  vol.  ii,  p.  436; 
vol.  iii,  p.  257;  Hawkins'  "Missions  of  the  Church  of  England  in  the 
Colonies,"  pp.  16,  107. 

11  See  Appendix  A  for  full  text. 

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Christ  Church  was  founded  in  1695,  under  a  provision  of  the  original  charter  of  King  Charles 
II  to  William  Penii  for  the  creation  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania. 

The  parish  was  subsidized  by  King  William  III  (William  of  Orange). 

Here  the  Colonial  Governors  had  their  State  Pew. 

The  Penn  family  pew  was  No.  60.  John  Penn,  the  last  male  member  of  this  line,  is  buried  near 
the  steps  to  the  pulpit. 

Communion  silver  presented  in  1709  by  Queen  Anne. 

Whitefield  preached  here  in  1729. 

The  tablet  to  General  Forbes,  the  victor  of  Fort  Duquesne,  1758,  may  be  seen  in  the  chancel. 

The  pulpit  dates  from  1770.  The  candelabra  in  the  centre  isle  is  for  candle-light,  and  has  hung 
in  place  since  1749.     The  gravestones  and  tablets  are  mostly  of  colonial  and  revolutionary  days. 

Continental  Congress  attended  here  a  service  of  fasting  and  prayer  in  1775,  shortly  after  the 
battle  of  Lexington. 

The  Baptismal  Font  dates  from  1695. 

The  church  organ,  built  in  1765,  has  been  rebuilt  twice,  except  the  front  case  and  keyboard. 

The  chime  of  bells  pealed  forth  the  Declaration  of  Independence  in  response  to  the  Liberty 
Bell,  July  4,  1776.  They  were  taken  from  the  city  with  the  Liberty  Bell  by  Continental  Congress  at 
the  British  occupation  of  the  city,  and  were  subsequently  rehung  in  the  tower  by  Congress. 

Many  members  of  the  convention  which  framed  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  1787, 
worshipped  here  during  the  sessions. 

George  Washington  and  Martha  Washington  regularly  occupied  Pew  No.  58  from  1790  to  1797, 
while  he  was  President.  The  same  was  the  official  pew  of  John  Adams  while  President,  and  was 
used  by  the  Marquis  de  Lafayette  on  his  second  visit  to  this  country. 

Benjamin  Franklin  was  a  member  of  the  committee  which  built  the  spire,  and  occupied  Pew 
No.  70 ;  since  used  by  members  of  his  family. 

Robert  Morris,  Treasurer  of  the  Revolution,  who  is  buried  beneath  the  Parish  House,  sat  in 
Pew  No.  52. 

Francis  Hopkinson,  Secretary  of  Continental  Congress,  and  his  son.  Judge  Joseph  Hopkinson, 
author  of  the  national  hymn,  "Hail  Columbia,"  occupied  Pew  No.  65. 

General  Charles  Lee,  of  the  Continental  army,  is  interred  beside  the  southwest  door;  and 
nearby  was  laid  to  rest,  after  the  battle  of  Princeton,  General  Hugh  Mercer,  1777. 

Rt.  Rev.  William  White,  D.D.,  first  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania,  is  interred  before  the  chancel 
rails  ;  and  his  episcopal  chair  is  beside  the  altar. 

General  Cadwalader,  of  the  War  of  1812,  occupied  the  Cadwalader  family  Pew  No.  55. 

Henry  Clay,  during  the  time  of  his  temporary  attendance,  sat  in  front  of  the  west  column, 
north  side. 

In  the  churchyard  are  interred  Peyton  Randolph,  first  President  of  Continental  Congress  ; 
Commodores  Truxton,  Bainbridge,  Biddle  and  Richard  Dale;  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Nellie  Custis 
(Mrs.  Lewis),  daughter  of  Martha  Washington,  and  several  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence, and  other  persons  of  distinction. 

The  American  Episcopal  Church  was  organized,  its  constitution  was  framed  and  the  American 
Prayer  Book  was  adopted  in  this  church,  1785. 

At  the  southeast  of  the  nave  is  the  "Washington  Door,"  through  which  was  accustomed  to 
enter  the  "  Father  of  his  Country." 

Rev.  Louis  C.  Washburn  is  Rector  191 7. 


Msntt0  to  Sitticlc&  ot  Sifitttmtnt 


Signers  to   Articles  of   Agreement 


Thomas  Leeeh^^ 
John  Ross^3 
John  Baynton^^ 
Plunkt  Fleesonis 
"Walter  Goodman^^ 
Thos.  Campbelli^ 
James  Benezet^^ 
John  Ord^^ 
Jno.  Knowles^" 
Ephraim  Bonham^i 
John  Pahner-2 
Andw.  Bankson^s 
Andrew  Doz^* 
Thos.  Charlton'^^ 
Trustees 


Willm  Macclenachan 
Minister  of  St.  Paul's 
John  Young 
David  Haipe 
Walter  Shee^^ 
John  Howard^^ 
Lester  Falkner^^ 
Jos.  Pursell 
Robt.  Usher 
Robt.  Mullan 
Charles  Stow 
Joseph  Wardden 
Isaac  Stretch 
John  Reily^^ 
Henry  Burnet 


William  Murdoch 
Thos.  Richard 

his 
Alexander  C. 

Hiekenbottom 

mark 
Richard  Taylor 
Doctr  Willm 

Dickenson 
Edmund  Beach^^ 
Benj.  Randolph 
Richd.  Swan 
William  Shute^^ 
Robt  Towers 
Willm  Young 


12  Thomas  Leech,  Esq.,  third  son  of  Tobias  Leech,  Esq.,  by  his  wife 
Esther  Ashmead,  born  circa  1685,-  died  31  March,  1765,  was  a  prominent 
Philadelphia  merchant  and  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  city.  He  was 
clerk  to  the  Assembly  from  1723  until  1727;  member  of  that  body  for 
twenty-five  years,  serving  as  speaker  in  1758  and  1759;  trustee  of  the 
College  of  Philadelphia,  now  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  from  1749 
until  his  death,  and  treasurer  of  Philadelphia  County  in  1757-8-9.  He 
was  one  of  the  committee  of  three  which  procured  the  now  famous 
"Independence  Bell,"  and  one  of  the  trustees  in  whom  the  title  to  the 
State  House  and  other  public  buildings  was  vested  by  Act  of  Assembly 
of  February  17,  1762.  A  devout  Episcopalian,  he  was  for  thirty-two 
years  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Church  and  a  warden  five  years.  He 
took  an  active  part  in  founding  St.  Paul's,  and  was  interred  under  one 
of  the  aisles  of  this  church.  "A  sermon,  suitable  to  the  occasion,  was 
preached  by  the  Eeverend  Mr.  William  McClenachan,  A.M.,  and  Minister 
of  that  Church,  to  a  crowded  and  weeping  congregation."  An  interest- 
ing obituary  of  him  appears  in  The  Pennsylvania  Gazette  of  April  8, 
1762. 

13  John  Eoss,  Esq.,  1715-1776,  son  of  the  eminent  divine,  Eev.  George 
Boss,  forty  years  the  Eector  of  Emanuel  Church,  New  Castle,  Delaware, 
and  half  brother  of  Hon.  George  Eoss,  a  Signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  was  one  of  Philadelphia's  best  known  legal  lights  of  the 
period  and  the  chief  rival  before  the  courts  of  Andrew  Hamilton.  In 
his  diary,  under  date  of  September  25,  1775,  John  Adams  writes  of  him 
as  "  a  lawyer  of  great  eloquence  and  heretofore  of  extensive  practice,  a 
great  Tory,  but  now  they  say  beginning  to  be  converted."  The  Penn- 
sylvania Gazette  of  May  15,  1776,  records:  "On  the  5th  instant,  de- 
parted this  life,  aged  61  years,  John  Eoss,  Esquire,  long  an  eminent 
counsellor  of  the  law,  in  this  city.  His  remains,  bourne  by  the  Gentle- 
men of  the  Bar,  attended  by  a  number  of  the  most  respectable  of  his 

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Danl.   Clark  John  Lees 

William  Leech  Thomas  Mackarall 

Kenneth  Maekensie  James  Harris 
Humphy  Wayne  his 

Jas  Claypoole  Jeremiah  T.  Sharp 
John  Young  mark 

Jacob  Imitz  George  Leadbetter 

fellow  citizens,  was  deposited  in  St.  Paul's  Church  agreeably  to  his  own 
desire."  For  twenty-two  years  he  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Church 
and  several  years  of  St.  Paul's.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  Morgan,  whom 
he  married  December  28,  1735,  is  also  buried  at  St.  Paul's  as  was  their 
daughter,  Catharine,  wife  of  Henry  Gurney,  see  Appendix.  He  was,  in 
1729,  counsel  for  the  Penn  Estate  in  Pennsylvania.  In  this  connection, 
see  vol  10,  Penna.  Mag.  of  History  and  Biog.,  p.  477. 

14  John  Baynton  of  the  firm  of  Baynton,  Wharton  &  Morgan,  one  of 
the  noted  commercial  houses  of  his  time  in  Philadelphia  and  son  of  Peter 
and  Mary  (Budd)  Baynton,  was  born  December  17,  1726.  From  1756 
until  1761,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Assembly,  and  under  an  act  of  that 
body  in  1758/9,  was  appointed  a  trustee  for  disbursing  £100,000  ordered 
for  paying  and  clothing  the  troops  raised  in  Pennsylvania  for  the  war 
then  pending.  In  1762  he  became  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Province, 
in  whom  was  vested,  by  an  Act  of  Assembly  passed  that  year,  the  legal 
title  of  the  State  House,  now  Independence  Hall,  with  its  adjoining 
property.  He  was  a  founder  of  the  Society  of  Sons  of  St.  George,  a 
member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  and  a  contributor  to  the 
Pennsylvania  Hospital.  He  died  May  8,  1773,  having  married,  Decem- 
ber 17,  1747,  Elizabeth  Chevalier,  by  whom  he  had  several  children,  of 
these  were:  John,  who  was  commissioned  by  Congress,  Deputy  Pay- 
master General  to  the  troops  and  garrisons  on  the  frontiers  of  Virginia 
and  Pennsylvania;  Peter,  Treasurer  of  Pennsylvania  in  1797,  and  Ad- 
jutant General  in  1799;  Mary,  who  married  Colonel  George  Morgan,  an 
eminent  Pennsylvanian ;  Esther,  who  married  Joseph  Bullock,  Esq.,  and 
Elizabeth,  who  married  Abraham  Markoe,  the  first  Captain  of  the  First 
City  Troop,  and  the  founder  of  the  Markoe  family  of  Philadelphia,  q.  v. 

isPLUNKET  Fleeson,  Philadelphia,  1712-1791,  became  ensign  in  Capt. 
Bond's  Company  of  the  Associated  Regiment  of  Foot,  of  Philadelphia, 
under  commission  of  January  1,  1747/8.  In  1762  and  1763  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly;  signed  the  Non-Importation 
Eesolutions  in  1765,  and  on  March  28,  1777,  was  commissioned  a  Justice 
of  the  Courts  of  Philadelphia.  On  November  18,  1780,  he  was  com- 
missioned Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  of  which  he  was  some 
years  president  judge,  also  of  "the  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions  and  later 
of  the  Orphans  Court.  Active  in  furthering  the  cause  of  the  Revolution, 
he  in  1776,  loaned  the  State  £500  to  raise  recruits  for  the  army.  Among 
the  early  contributors  to  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  he  was  some  years 
a  director  of  that  institution.     He  died  in  August,  1791,  aged  seventy- 

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feiffnetsf  to  Sittic\t0  ot  Sisttemtnt 


John  Wilkinson  John  Jones 

James  Stevenson  James  White 

W.  Blanch  White  Giles  Tidmarsh  Junr 

William  Budden  George  Hawkins 

Nathaniel  Curren  Blair  Macelenachan 

seven  years.  His  first  wife,  Catharine  Fleeson,  was  buried  in  Christ 
Church  ground,  December  13,  1752.  He  married  (2),  June  16,  1753, 
Martha,  widow  of  John  Linton  and  daughter  of  Andrew  Bankson.  Of 
his  children :  Esther,  married  1st,  Commodore  John  Hazlewood,  2d  Samuel 
Leacock  and  had  issue  by  both  marriages;  Thomas,  married  Kebecca 
Britton,  and  had  issue;  Ann,  married  Samuel  Penrose,  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  First  Troop  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry;  Martha,  married 
Thomas  Canadine. 

16  Capt.  Walter  Goodman,  died  August  26,  1782,  aged  sixty-seven 
years,  buried  at  Christ  Church  of  which  he  was  a  vestryman  as  early  as 
1745.    He  signed  St.  Paul's  Church  lottery  ticket,  infra. 

17  Capt.  Thomas  Campbell,  on  the  roll  of  The  St.  Andrew's  Society 
of  Philadelphia,  in  1756. 

18  Major  James  Benezet,  of  the  well-known  Huguenot  family  of  his 
surname,  was  born  in  London,  England,  August  26,  1721,  and  died  in 
Bucks  County,  Pennsylvania,  May  16,  1794.  He  married  June  5,  1747, 
Ann,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Samuel  Hasell,  three  times  mayor  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  Provincial  Councillor,  who  survived  him.  In  1765,  he  was  a 
signer  of  the  Non-Importation  Eesolutions,  after  which  he  removed  to 
Bucks  County,  where  he  took  an  active  part  in  civil  and  military  affairs 
during  the  Kevolution  and  where  he  was  Major  of  Militia,  March  3,  1777. 
In  the  latter  year  he  became  Prothonotary  and  Clerk  of  Court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas,  which  office  he  held  until  1787.  His  eldest  son.  Captain 
Samuel  Benezet,  was  the  only  one  of  his  children  to  marry. 

19  John  Ord,  Esq.,  died  December  11,  1781,  in  the  sixty-third  year  of 
his  age.  His  obit,  in  the  Pennsylvania  Gazette  of  December  19,  1781,  says 
in  part :  ' '  This  gentleman  maintained  in  every  stage  and  situation  of  his 
life,  the  character  of  a  valuable  member  of  civil  and  religious  society. 
He  executed  the  office  of  a  Magistrate  both  under  the  old  and  new  condi- 
tions of  the  State  with  integrity  and  impartiality.  ...  In  private  life, 
he  was  kind,  sincere  and  just.  In  a  word,  all  who  knew  him  agree  that 
he  was  in  the  fullest  import  of  the  words,  a  good  citizen  and  an  honest 
man. ' '  His  wife  Ann,  daughter  of  Thomas  Mason,  was  buried  in  Christ 
Church  ground  in  1752,  as  was  he  nearly  thirty  years  later. 

20  John  Knowles  was  a  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  the 
City  and  County  of  Philadelphia,  June  6,  1777  to  1786. 

21EPHRAIM  Bonham,  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  2  (Philadelphia),  in 
1749  (Moderns),  and  proposed  by  Blathwaite  Jones',  November  14,  1769, 
in  Lodge  No.  2,  Ancient  York  Masons,  was  also  a  member  of  the  Fishing 
Company  of  Fort  St.  David's  in  1763.  He  had  been  connected  with 
Christ  Church  and  his  children  were  there  baptized. 

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^igitorp  ot  fe»t  ^mV0  (£pi0topal  CfiutcS 


John  Perry  John  Williams 

David  Boore  John  Wood 

William  Smith  James  Payne 

John  Johnston  -  William  Murdock  Junr 

Riehd  Parker  John  Presley 

22  John  Palmer,  frequently  mentioned  in  Jacob  Hiltzheimer  's  Diary, 
married  Deborah  Bankson,  May  7,  1743,  and  had  several  children  bap- 
tized at  Christ  Church.  He  died  April  8,  1797,  aged  80  years,  the  last 
survivor  of  the  original  trustees,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Paul's  grounds, 
q.  V. 

23  Andrew  Bankson,  a  descendant  of  some  of  the  earliest  and  most 
influential  of  the  Swedish  settlers  on  the  Delaware  and  brother-in-law 
of  Plunkett  Fleeson  and  John  Palmer,  also  signatories  to  the  Articles  of 
Agreement,  died  at  Philadelphia  in  March,  1786.  Eeaders  of  Colonial 
newspapers  will  recall  the  causa  celehre  between  Andrew  Bankson  and 
the  clergy  and  vestry  of  Gloria  Dei  Church  in  1767.  By  his  wife,  Sarah 
Allen,  who  was  buried  in  Christ  Church  ground  in  January,  1786,  he  had 
at  least  seven  children,  of  whom:  "Jacob  Bankson  delivered  the  Saluta- 
tory oration  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  November  19,  1767.  On 
the  same  occasion  an  Ode  set  to  music  was  sung  by  [his  brother]  Mr. 
John  Bankson  with  great  sweetness  and  Propriety  accompanied  by  the 
Organ."  The  former  became  a  practitioner  of  the  law  in  Chester 
County;  the  latter  a  Captain  in  the  Revolution  and  an  original  member 
of  the  Cincinnati. 

24  Andrevp"  Doz,  son  of  Philip  and  Martha  Doz,  baptized  at  Christ 
Church,  December  26,  1727;  died  December  18,  1788,  and  was  interred  in 
Christ  Church  ground.  The  Pennsylvania  Gazette  said  after  his  death: 
' '  This  worthy  citizen  does  not  require  the  panegyric  of  a  newspaper  to 
spread  the  knowledge  of  his  virtues,  or  to  perpetuate  his  name  in  the 
City  of  Philadelphia.  His  country,  the  Church  of  Christ,  and  the 
distressed  of  every  description  and  denomination,  shared  largely  in  the 
benefits  of  his  public  spirit  and  charities  during  his  life,  and  were 
remembered  by  him  with  peculiar  liberality  in  the  hour  of  his  death. 
These  public  virtues  were  not  the  splendid  apologies  for  the  want  of 
those  of  private  life.  He  was  upright,  faithful  and  affectionate  in  the 
discharge  of  all  the  social  and  domestic  obligations."  He  married 
Rebecca,  daughter  of  Caleb  Cash.  Their  daughter  Lucia  became  the 
wife  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Magaw,  D.D.,  rector  of  St.  Paul's,  1781  to 
1804,  q.  V.  The  bequest  of  Mr.  Doz  to  the  Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church,  was  all  Bishop  White  had  to  depend  upon  as  Bishop  outside 
of  his  salary  as  Rector  of  Christ  Church.  His  will  dated  December  17, 
1788,  of  which  his  wife  Rebecca,  daughter  Martha  Flower,  Rt.  Rev.  Dr. 
William  White,  Samuel  Coates  and  Miers  Fisher,  were  executors,  devised 
entire  estate  after  death  of  his  wife  and  daughter  to  Pennsylvania  Hos- 
pital, Protestant  Episcopal  Academy,  Bishop  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  Society  for  Relief  of  Protestant  Episcopal  Clergymen  widows 

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John  Bourn  Thomas  Cuthbert 

John  Moyes  John   Sprogell  Junr 

Richard  Hancock  John  George 

George  Goodwin  John  Ledru 

Robert  Carson  Claudius  Dubois 

and  children,  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia,  Philadelphia  Dispensary, 
and  Humane  Society  of  Philadelphia. — Eegister  of  Wills,  Phila.,  Boole 
W,  page  206. 

25  Thomas  Charlton,  vestryman  of  Christ  Church,  1769. 

26  David  Hall,  born  in  Scotland  in  1714;  died  in  Philadelphia,  De- 
cember 24,  1772,  and  was  buried  in  Christ  Church  burying  ground.  For 
eighteen  years  he  was  a  partner  of  Benjamin  Franklin  in  the  printing 
business,  and  with  him  published  the  Pennsylvania  Gazette.  Upon  the 
dissolution  of  this  partnership  in  1766,  Mr.  Hall  formed  a  new  one  with 
William  Sellers,  under  the  firm  name  of  Hall  &  Sellers,  which  concern 
continued  the  printing  and  publishing  business  until  the  death  of  the 
former.  In  1751  and  1753  Mr.  Hall  was  a  vestryman  of  Christ  Church. 
He  became  a  member  of  Lodge  Xo.  2,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  Jan- 
uary 25,  1760.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  St.  Andrews  Society 
of  Philadelphia  and  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society. 
His  sons,  William  and  David,  succeeded  to  their  father's  place  in  the 
printing  firm  and  they  continued  the  publication  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Gazette. 

27  Walter  Shee,  an  Irish  gentleman  who  had  come  to  Philadelphia 
about  1745,  and  engaged  in  the  shipping  business  with  his  two  sons,  the 
firm  being  Walter  Shee  &  Sons  when  they  signed  the  Non-Importation 
Kesolutions  of  1765.  In  1777  he  became  Collector  of  Customs  at  Phila- 
delphia, and  held  this  position  throughout  the  Eevolution.  His  eldest 
son  was  later  Colonel  John  Shee  of  the  3d  Battalion  of  Pennsylvania 
Troops,  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Board  of  War,  General  of  Volun- 
teers after  the  War,  and  Collector  of  the  Port  of  Philadelphia,  dying 
during  his  incumbency  of  the  last  office,  August  5,  1808. 

28  John  Howard,  vestryman  of  St.  Paul 's,  1764-1771,  q.v. 

29  Lester  Falkner,  wealthy  sea  captain  affi.liated  with  Christ  Church, 
died  August  8,  1766,  His  second  wife  was  Sarah,  daughter  of  John 
Coats  and  widow  of  Captain  Thomas  Penrose.  She  married  3d,  An- 
thony Duche. 

30  John  Eeily  was  a  conveyancer  and,  in  1760,  Secretary  of  Lodge 
No.  3,  F.  &  A.  M.,  called  the  Tun  Tavern  Lodge  from  the  place  of  meet- 
ing, a  noted  hostelry  on  the  east  side  of  Water  Street  just  south  of 
Chestnut  Street.  Associated  with  him  in  this  Lodge  were  the  following 
subscribers  to  St.  Paul's:  John  Howard,  John  Wilkinson,  John  Ord, 
John  Eoss,  Walter  Shee. 

31  Mr.  Edmund  Beach,  of  Southwark,  died  February  25,  1787.  ''His 
remains  were  interred  in  the  burial  grounds  of  the  Third  Presbyterian 

4  33 


Christopher  Pechin  Michael  Brothers 

David  Branson  William  Sellers 

George  Nelson  Thos.  White 

John  Smith  Josh.  Ledru 

Danl  Dupuy  Nat.  Irish 

John  Doyle  Jonathan  Hanson 
Joseph  Hargrave 

The  agreeements,  concessions,  and  constitutions  of  The 
Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul  were  drawn  by  John  Ross,  Es- 
quire, the  rival  of  Andrew  Hamilton  at  the  Philadelphia  bar, 
and  are  a  tribute  to  their  author's  legal  acumen  and  ability. 
It  will  be  noticed  that  the  corporate  title  is.  The  Episcopal 
Church  of  St.  Paul  not  "Protestant  Episcopal,"  because  St. 
Paul's  was  founded  before  the  organization  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  America.  In  point  of  fact,  St.  Paul's 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

On  the  24th  day  of  June,  1760,  as  before  set  forth,  these 

certain  agreements,  concessions,  and  constitutions  were  made, 

concluded  and  agreed  upon,  by  and  between 

_  ^.        ,     the  subscribers  and  contributors  for  raising 

Propagation  of  ° 

Principles  of       a  sum  of  money  for  purchasing  or  renting 

Established        ^^^  qj.  more  lots  of  ground  and  building  a 
Church 

church  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  wherein 

Church  attended  by  a  large  number  of  respectable  inhabitants."     See 
obit,  in  The  Pennsylvania  Gazette. 

82  William  Shute,  nephew  of  Atwood  Shute,  Esq.,  a  vestryman  of 
Christ  Church  and  Mayor  of  Philadelphia,  was  a  well-known  merchant 
of  his  time  and  the  ancestor  of  many  prominent  Philadelphians,  among 
whom  may  be  mentioned  the  late  Col.  Charles  Somers  Smith,  Henry 
Hollingsworth  Smith,  M.D.,  Francis  Gurney  Smith,  M.D.,  Atwood  Smith 
and  the  present  Charles  Smith  Turnbull,  M.D.,  Mr.  Shute  died  in 
February,  1783,  having  been  contributor  to  Pennsylvania  Hospital, 
member  of  Fishing  Company  of  Fort  St.  David 'sj  first  lieutenant  of 
Captain  Richard  Barrett's  Company  of  Guards,  under  Major  Lewis 
Nichola  in  1777,  and  one  of  the  Wardens  of  Philadelphia  in  1782.  He 
was  an  active  Mason,  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  2  in  1754  and  after  the 
decline  of  the  "Moderns,"  joined  Lodge  No.  3  of  the  "Ancients"; 
served  as  Master  in  1770;  became  active  in  the  Grand  Lodge  and  was 
Senior  Grand  Warden  in  1772.  (Sachse,  "Old  Masonic  Lodges  in  Penn- 
sylvania, Moderns  and  Ancients,"  vol.  i,  p.  87. 

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it  was  provided  that  the  ground  to  be  purchased  and  the 
building  thereon  to  be  erected  should  be  conveyed  to  fourteen 
persons  and  the  survivor  of  them,  and  held  upon  the  following 
uses  and  trusts: 

First,  to  build  thereon  a  house  of  public  worship,  *'to  be 
used  and  employed  as  a  house  of  public  worship  forever, 
wherein  shall  be  read,  performed,  and  taught  the  liturgy, 
rights,  ceremonies,  doctrines  and  true  principles  of  the  estab- 
lished church  of  England,  according  to  the  plain,  literal  and 
grammatical  sense  of  the  thirty-nine  articles^^  of  the  said 
church,  and  none  other  whatsoever;  and  the  same  house  is 
hereby  agreed  forever  hereafter  to  be  styled  and  called  by  the 
name  of  St.  Paul's  Church." 

Second,  That  the  title  should  be  vested  in  the  said  fourteen 
persons  and  their  survivors,  and  by  them  conveyed  to  the  per- 
son or  persons  named  by  the  congregation. 

Third,  That  the  Kev'd  William  MacClenachan  should  be- 
minister  of  the  said  Church  until  his  successor  was  duly 
chosen. 

Fourth,  That  an  assistant  minister  should  be  chosen. 

Fifth,  That  a  vestry  of  twenty  persons  should  be  elected. 

Sixth,  That  the  Vestry  should  collect  the  revenues  of  the 
Church,  and  apply  them  to  the  payment  of  the  ground  rents, 
the  salaries  of  the  clerk  and  sexton,  repairs  to  the  church, 
and  churchyard,  and  other  incidental  expenses  in  the  order 
named,  and 

Lastly,  To  put  the  residue  into  the  hands  of  the  Minister 
and  his  assistant,  in  such  portions  as  the  congregation  by 
ballot  should  direct. 

On  the  16th  day  of  September,  1760,  Anthony  Morris,  the 

33  MoConnell  in  his  '  *  History  of  the  American  Episcopal  Church, '  ^ 
p.  274,  gives  the  history  of  the  thirty-nine  articles  and  states  that  their- 
adoption  was  foreign  to  the  genius  of  the  American  Church  and  shouldL 
have  been  eliminated  at  the  organization  thereof. 

35 


younger,  conveyed  the  greater  part  of  the  premises,  being  the 
part  on  which  the  church  building  was  afterward  erected,  to 
the  fourteen  persons,  viz. :  Thomas  Leech,  et  al.  and  survivor 
of  them  in  fee,  and  on  the  19th  day  of  April,  1762,  Israel 
Morris  conveyed  the  other  part  of  the  premises  to  the  four- 
teen persons,  viz. :  John  Koss,  et  al.  and  the  survivor  of  them 
in  fee. 

On  the  23d  day  of  September,  1783,  the  church  was  in- 
corporated by  Act  of  Assembly^*  of  that  date,  under  the  name 
and  title  of  ''The  Minister,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen 
of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul,  in  the 

Church  Q,^.         .    Philadelphia,     in     the     Common- 

Incorporated 

wealth  of  Pennsylvania."  The  incorpora- 
tors named  in  the  Charter  were:  the  Rev.  Samuel  Magaw, 
D.D.,  rector  or  minister,  John  Wood  and  Lambert  Wilmer, 
wardens ;  Plunket  Fleeson,  John  Young,  Andrew  Doz,  George 
Goodwin,  John  Campbell,  George  Ord,  Blair  McClenachan, 
William  Graham,  George  Glentworth,  Joseph  Bullock,  Samuel 
Penrose,  George  Nelson,  Richard  Renshaw,  Joseph  Turner, 
John  Keble,  John  Bates,  James  Dougherty  and  Benjamin 
Towne,  vestrymen.  John  Palmer,  who,  on  October  14,  1796, 
was  the  sole  survivor  of  the  orginal  fourteen  trustees,  con- 
veyed the  lot  of  ground  first  before  mentioned,  and  on  De- 
cember 22,  1796,  he  conveyed  the  lot,  second  before  named, 
to  the  church  as  incorporated,  its  successors  and  assigns. 

None  of  the  deeds  by  which  the  church  acquired  its  prop- 
erty imposed  any  restriction,  condition,  or  trust  upon  its  use ; 
but  it  is  provided  in  the  twelfth  section  of  its  charter  that  the 
agreements,  concessions,  and  constitutions  made  by  the  sub- 
scribers and  contributors  to  the  church,  by  their  agreement 
of  June  24,  1760,  before  recited,  should  remain  in  force  and 
operation. 

34  See  copy  of  Act  of  Assembly,  Appendix  A,  pp.  11-19. 

36 


C5utc$  3fncotpotatfli 


By  section  5  of  said  Act  it  was  further  enacted  that  said 
corporation  and  its  successors  "shall  and  may  grant,  alien, 
or  otherwise  dispose  of  any  messuages,  houses,  lands,  tene- 
ments or  hereditaments  other  than  the  site  of  the  house  of 
public  worship  or  church  aforesaid  and  the  burial  ground  or 
grounds  which  they  do  now  or  may  hereafter  possess  as  to 
them  may  seem  meet  and  proper. '  '^^ 

The  ground  on  Third  Street,  below  Walnut,  acquired^^  for 
the  church  building  consisted  of  several  lots  making  the  front 
103  feet  on  Third  Street,  extending  southward  of  that  width 
195  feet  to  Levant,  now  American  Street.  It  was  purchased 
upon  ground  rent,  payable  in  Spanish  pistoles,  a  gold  coin,  a 
quarter  doubloon,  worth  $3.92,  which  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
eighteenth  and  early  part  of  the  ninetheenth  century,  in  Phila- 
delphia, was  equal  to  $4.00  silver  coin.  These  ground  rents 
were  subsequently  paid  off  and  extinguished. 

The  erection  of  the  present  edifice  was  at  once  begun  and 
the  walls  were  built  in  1761  with  the  amount  subscribed. 
More  money  was  needed,  and  it  was  determined  to  raise  it  by 


St.  P  J  U  L's    Church     LOTTERY, 
1761.  NuMfi.  y^ 

THIS  Ticket  entitles  ^e  Bearer  to  fuch 
Prize  as  may  be  drawn  againit  ils 
Number,  if  demanded  withm  fix  Months 
after  the  Drawing  is  fiuifhed ;  fubjecl  10  fuch 
Deduftion  as  h  menticmeiLyi  ifie  Scheme. 


35 St.  Paul's  is  the  owner  of  a  certain  burial  lot  in  the  Mount  Moriah 
Cemetery,  granted  by  deed  dated  the  23d  day  of  June,  1855,  numbered 
section  Forty-seven  on  the  plan  of  said  Cemetery,  containing  in  front  on 
the  avenue  surrounding  the  Western  Circle  in  said  cemetery,  one  hundred 
and  fifty  feet  and  in  depth  on  the  East  Line,  one  hundred  and  sixty  feet 
and  on  the  West  Line,  two  hundred  and  fifty-one  feet,  containing  25,120 
square  feet  more  or  less. 

se  Abstracts  of  the  title  deeds,  1760  to  1904,  are  given  as  Appendix  B. 

37 


l^(0tots  ot  &t  paurjEi  (Episcopal  C|^utc| 

a  lottery.  Through  the  courtesy  of  Dr.  John  "W.  Jordan  of 
the  Historical  Society,  of  Pennsylvania,  a  facsimile  reproduc- 
tion of  the  original  lottery  ticket  number  71,  which  partici- 
pated in  the  first  drawing,  is  given  on  the  preceding  page. 
The  full  scheme  appeared  in  The  Pennsylvania  Gazette  under 
date  of  January  29,  1761,  as  follows : 

"  As  a  new  church,  called  ST.  PAUL'S-CHURCH,  has  been  thought 

necessary,  for  the  Worship  of  Almighty  God,  to  be  erected  in  the 

City,  by  many  well  disposed  Christians  who  have,  according  to  their 

Abilities,  cheerfully  svibscribed,  and  many  of  them 

_/  ,    ,  paid  considerable  Sums  of  Money,  towards  carry- 

Method  "  ^.         .         ^     .        ^  ^'  1  4> 

mg  on  the  pious  Work.     In  consequence  wliereoi, 

a  very  large  and  commodious  Building  hath  been  begun,  and  car- 
ried on  to  the  full  Height  of  the  Brick  Work:  But  it  being  judged 
that  the  Expence  of  completing  and  finishing  this  Church,  will 
greatly  exceed  the  Sums  subscribed;  therefore  it  is  thought  expedient 
to  set  up  a  LOTTERY,  for  the  purpose  of  raising  3000  pieces  of 
Eight,  which  it  is  hoped  will  completely  finish  the  said  church;  and 
not  doubted  but  all  well  Wishers  to  the  true  Worship  of  God,  will 
favour  and  encourage  this  Under  taking. 

"THE  SCHEME  for  the  purpose  is  as  follows: 

Number  of  Prizes.         Pieces  of  Eight.  Total  Value. 


1 

of 

1000 

is 

1000 

1 

of 

500 

is 

500 

2 

of 

300 

are 

600 

3 

of 

200 

are 

600 

4 

of 

100 

are 

400 

8 

of 

75 

are 

600 

20 

of 

40 

are 

800 

30 

of 

30 

are 

900 

40 

of 

20 

are 

800 

149 

of 

10 

are 

1490 

1515 

of 

8 

are 

12120 

1773 

prizes 

First 

drawn  Ticket 

50 

3227 

blanks 

Last 

drawn  Ditto, 

50 

Ticket 

Drawn  before  the  1000 

30 

Ticket 

Next  after  the  1000 

30 

Ticket 

Drawn  before  the  500 

16 

Ticket 

Drawn  next  after  the  500 

14 

20000 

38 


fLotttt)f  Common  S^tt^oh 


"  This  scheme  is  the  most  favourable  and  heretofore  calculated  in 
this  City  to  the  Adventurers.  The  Banks  and  Prizes  being  consid- 
erably less  than  two  to  one.  The  large  number  of  middling  Prizes 
is  also  a  great  Advantage;  and  the  Deduction  is  but  small,  being 
only  fifteen  per  cent.  The  Drawing  to  begin  punctually  on  the  first 
Day  of  April  Next,  or  sooner,  if  sooner  full.  The  prizes  to  be  pub- 
lished in  this  Gazette,  and  the  Pennsylvania  Jouraal,  and  the  Prize 
Money  to  be  paid  as  soon  as  the  Drawing  shall  be  finished,  the  afore- 
said Dedication  to  be  first  made. 

"Prize  money  not  demanded  in  six  months  after  the  Publication 
of  the  Prizes,  to  be  deemed  as  generously  given  to  the  use  of  the  said 
Church  and  to  be  applied  accordingly.  The  following  Gentlemen 
are  appointed  Managers,  viz. :  Walter  Goodman,  Thomas  Campbell, 
John  Ord,  Plunket  Fleeson,  Ephraim  Bonham,  Andrew  Bankson, 
Andrew  Doz,  Thomas  Charlton,  James  Stevenson,  John  Young, 
James  Claypoole  and  Robert  Towers:  who  are  to  give  bond,  and  be 
upon  Oath,  that  they  will  truly  execute  the  Trust  in  them  reposed. 
.  .  .  Tickets  are  now  selling  by  the  said  managers,  at  their  respective 
Dwelling-houses,  William  Bradford  at  the  London  Coffee-House,  and 
David  Hall,  at  the  Printing-Office,  in  Market  Street. 

"  N.B.  John  Reily,  of  this  City,  Conveyancer,  will  insure  Tickets 
in  this  Lottery,  at  a  very  low  Premium." 

Five  thousand  tickets  at  four  dollars  each  cleared  several 
thousand  dollars,  and  the  next  year  a  lottery  scheme  of  thirty 
thousand  dollars  was  put  through,  which  cleared  enough  to 
extinguish  the  ground  rents.  The  Pennsylvania  Gazette  of 
April  16,  1761,  thus  calls  attention  to  the  second  lottery : 

"  The  managers  and  Congregation  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  in  Phila- 
delphia return  their  most  sincere  and  hearty  thanks  to  the  Adven- 
turers in  the  late  Lottery,  for  finishing  and  completing  the  said 
church;  the  alacrity  and  cheerfulness  manifested  on  that  Occasion, 
by  filling  that  Lottery  in  less  than  twenty-days  from  its  Publication, 
deserve  the  most  public  Acknowledgements.  The  Application  of 
great  numbers  for  Tickets,  after  they  were  all  sold,  and  their  earnest 
Desire  that  another  Lottery  might  be  set  up,  towards  exonerating  the 
land,  on  Part  Whereof  that  Church  is  erected,  from  the  Ground  rent 
wherewith  it  is  chargeable,  and  for  purchasing  a  Burial  place,  are 
the  only  Motive  that  this  Lottery  is  now  made,  and  the  further  con- 
tinuance  of   the   Favours   of   the   Public   requested;    whereby   the 

39 


^i0tot^  ot  &t  paursi  episcopal  C|)ucc|) 

Church  will  be  cleared  from  the  Ground  Rent,  and  the  Congregation 
thereof  will  have  a  place  for  the  Interment  of  their  Dead,  as  they 
are  the  only  Society  in  this  City  destitute  of  a  burial  Ground."^'' 

At  a  Vestry  Meeting  of  February  9,  1761,  it  was  "Resolved 
to  apply  to  and  request  such  persons  as  have  power  to  permit 
the  wheels  of  blanks  and  prizes  heretofore  used  in  lotteries 
[to]  be  employed  for  the  use  of  St.  Paul's  Church."  Lot- 
teries were  frequently  used,  indeed  were  the  popular  means, 
to  raise  money  for  civic  and  religious  purposes  and  extensive 
public  improvements  were  in  the  eighteenth  century  con- 
stantly met  by  this  method.^^ 

37  These  lotteries  were  drawn  at  a  store  on  Gardner 's  Wharf,  opposite 
37  and  38  South  ^Vharves  above  Walnut  Street. 

38  Lotteries  were  employed  to  raise  and  equip  the  ' '  Associated  Bat- 
tery,"  near  the  Old  Navy  Yard,  to  build  Christ  Church  steeple,  and  in 
1753  for  raising  eight  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  for  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church,  then  at  the  Northwest  corner  of  Third  and  Arch  Streets, 
which  also  desired  to  build  a  steeple.  The  present  edifice  of  this  congre- 
gation is  at  Twenty-first  and  Walnut  Streets.  In  1754,  Connecticut 
raised  thirteen  thousand  three  hundred  and  thirty-two  pounds,  by  similar 
means,  to  aid  in  building  Princeton  College.  In  1761  Philadelphia  raised 
seven  thousand  four  hundred  dollars  to  pave  the  streets.  Trinity  Church, 
Oxford,  of  which  the  Eev.  Hugh  Neill  was  Rector,  held  a  lottery 
January  20,  1762,  to  enlarge  the  church.  Shortly  after  this,  the  Legis- 
lature by  an  act  of  February  17,  1762  (1  Smith's  Laws,  246),  prohibited 
lotteries  in  Pennsylvania  as  common  nuisances,  productive  of  vice,  idle- 
ness and  immorality,  under  a  penalty  of  500  pounds  sterling.  Notwith- 
standing this  statute,  making  lotteries  a  misdemeanor,  a  later  legislature 
ignored  it  and  passed  additional  legislation  authorizing  them,  viz. :  an 
act  of  March  27,  1789,  for  a  lottery  of  $8,000  to  erect  City  Hall  on  State 
House  Square,  Fifth  and  Chestnut  Streets,  Philadelphia,  and  for  one  of 
$2,000  for  the  use  of  Dickinson  College  at  Carlisle  (Statutes  at  Large  of 
Penna.,  vol.  13,  pp.  '276,  282).  By  an  Act  of  Assembly,  approved  by  the 
governor,  April  6,  1790,  Manuel  Josephson,  Solomon  Lyon,  William 
Wistar,  John  Duffield,  Samuel  Hayes  and  Solomon  Etting  were  appointed 
Managers  of  a  Lottery  to  raise  the  necessary  money  to  liquidate  a 
mortgage  of  800  pounds  upon  the  Synagogue  of  the  Hebrew  Congrega- 
tion. This  is  the  Congregation  Mickve  Israel,  Hope  of  Israel,  now  South- 
east corner  Broad  and  York  Streets,  Philadelphia  (ibid.,  pp.  532-537.)      On 

40 


C5«t:c5  Openeli  for  tlBot^^ip 


The  building  operation  went  promptly  forward  and  the 
edifice  was  opened  for  worship   on  the   Sunday  preceding 
Christmas-day,  1761.     As  originally  built  there  was  no  base- 
ment, the  outside  walls  were  of  brick  which 

^^'^'^^^f^®      have    since    been   plastered.     The    entrance 
for  Worship 

gates  of  the  church  were  imported  from 
England  and  greatly  admired  by  the  town's  people.  High 
back  pews,  like  those  of  Christ  Church  and  St.  Peter's  were 
installed,  as  was  a  sounding  board  over  the  pulpit,  also  an 
organ,  in  1762,  built  by  Philip  Fyring.  The  whole  method  of 
lighting  was  by  wax  candles  which  it  was  the  duty  of  the 
sexton  to  snuff  as  often  as  they  might  require  it. 

The  rules  of  the  Vestry  prescribed  the  duty  respectively 
of  the  Wardens,  Sexton,  Clerk,  Organist,  Bellows  Blower  and 
Chain  Carriers,  this  latter  official  being  unknown  to  the  pres- 
ent generation.      He   "shall  attend  to  the 
Rules  of  Vestry 

putting  up  the  chain  across  Third  Street,  at 

least  five  minutes  previous  to  the  commencement  of  services 
on  Sunday  morning  and  afternoon,  and  shall  remove  the 
same  as  soon  as  the  congregation  are  dismissed."  As  Third 
Street  was  the  main  artery  of  travel  it  deflected  traffic  to 
Second  and  Fourth  Streets. 

The  sexton's  duties  are  carefully  and  minutely  enumerated 
and  some  of  them  would  surprise  the  sextons  of  to-day.  He 
was  told  that:  "After  the  services  is  over  he  shall  take  care 
to  have  the  chandeliers  covered,  to  keep  the 
dust  from  them  in  winter  and  flies  in  sum- 
mer. He  shall  at  the  time  of  night  service  light  the  church  at 
the  proper  time,  snuff  the  candles  and,  at  a  later  date,  trim 
the  lamps  as  often  as  they  may  require  it. 

March  13,  1800,  the  Eoman  Catholic  Church  of  St.  Augustine  raised 
by  the  same  means  $10,000  for  the  completion  of  its  church  building 
(ibid.,  vol.  16,  p.  472). 

41 


"He  shall  extinguish  at  night  all  fires  before  he  leaves  the 
church.  He  shall  not  contract  any  debts  for  the  church  with- 
out the  approval  of  the  church  wardens.  He  shall  procure 
seats  for  strangers  as  far  as  he  conveniently  can.  He  shall  at- 
tend the  vestry  at  their  meetings,  and  see  that  their  room  is 
kept  clean.  He  shall  have  all  graves  dug  and  ready  one  hour 
before  funerals.  He  shall  not  suffer  goats  or  other  animals 
to  have  access  to  the  burial  ground.  He  shall  send  the  box 
money  to  the  Wardens  every  Monday  morning ;  keep  the  keys 
of  the  church,  and  pay  into  the  hands  of  the  acting  warden  all 
the  moneys  collected  by  him  once  every  six  months,  or  oftener 
if  required." 

On  April  28,  1767,  Messrs.  Richard  Neave  and  Son,  Lon- 
don, merchants,  presented  to  St.  Paul's  Church,  through 
Messrs.  John  Baynton^^  and  Wharton,  a  complete  set  of 
hangings  for  the  pulpit,  altar  and  reading  desk  and  clerk's 
desk,  "made  of  the  best  Crimson  Velvet,  richly  adorned  with 
Gold  Lace,  Fringe,  Tassels  and  Embroidery  valued  at  Two 
hundred  &  Fifty  Pounds.""" 

In  consideration  of  the  gift,  a  pew  was  appropriated  by  the' 
corporation  for  their  use  and  those  of  any  of  their  friends  who 
might  happen  to  be  in  America  at  any  time.  A  letter  of 
thanks  was  promptly  sent  to  them  by  "Captain  Falconer*^ 
now  under  sailing  orders  for  London."  Richard  Neave  was 
buried*^  in  St.  Paul's  church-yard,  12  July,  1795. 

The   records  of  Holy   Trinity    (Old   Swedes)    Church   of 

39  Abraham  Markoe,  first  Captain  of  the  Philadelphia  City  Troop,  who 
lived  at  Chestnut  and  Ninth  Streets,  on  the  present  site  of  the  Phila- 
delphia Eecord  and  the  Philadelphia  Post  Office,  married  in  1773,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  John  Baynton,  a  foremost  merchant  and  one  of  the 
founders  of  St.  Paul's,  q.  v.  Mrs,  Markoe  died  in  1784,  leaving  three 
children. 

40  Pennsylvania  Chronicle,  May  4,  1767. 

*i  Lester  Falkner,  the  subscriber  to  St.  Paul's,  24  June,  1760. 

42 


HatettSt  Cj^urcl  in  t|e  probtnce 


Wilmington,  Delaware,  show  that:  "on  October  2nd,  1770, 
the  hangings  of  the  altar  and  pulpit  were  stolen  ...  at  the 
same  time  the  Church  at  Newcastle  suffered  the  same  loss, 
and  soon  after  St.  Paul 's  Church  in  Philadelphia,  had  its  fine 
antique  hangings  stolen."  These  were  doubtless  the  Neave 
hangings.*^ 

The  new  Church  was  the  largest  in  the  Province,  and  in  a 

few  days  one  thousand  sittings  had  been  taken  in  it.     The 

formal  incorporation  as  the  Minister,  Church  Wardens  and 

Vestrymen  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  St. 

Largest  Church     p^^^  ^^  ^j^^  (.-^     ^^  Philadelphia  in  the  Com- 

m  the  Province 

monwealth  of  Pennsylvania  was,  as  before 

stated,  not  passed  by  the  Legislature  until  September  23, 
1783,  and  this  remained  the  corporate  title  up  to  February  25, 
1818,  when  the  word  minister  was  changed  to  rector.  It  was 
consecrated  by  Bishop  White,  January  1,  1831,  at  which  time 
the  building  had  been  remodeled,  both  internally  and  ex- 
ternally, which  also  included  re-arrangement  of  the  chancel. 
Several  of  our  present  city  churches,  St.  Andrew's;  Grace; 
St.  Philip's;  Emmanuel,  Kensington;  St.  Matthew's,  Francis- 
ville;  Epiphany  and  St.  Luke's  (which  latter  two  have  since 
consolidated),  etc.,  owe  their  existence  in  a 

.    au  s,     0    er  i^^„q  degree  to  the  zeal  and  enterprise  of  the 
of  many  Panshes         <=         =>  f 

rectors   and   members   of  this   church.      St. 

Paul 's  directly  or  indirectly  is  the  mother  of  them  all.    There 

42  It  is  interesting  to  note  the  cost  of  and  ceremony  attendant  upon 
funerals,  as  shown  by  the  minutes  of  the  Vestry  of  April  19,  1762: 
Minister  attending  funerals,  six  shillings. 

Clerk  attending  funerals,  four  shillings. 

Sexton  ringing  bell  (which  was  afterwards  given 

to  St.  Peter's  Church),  two  shillings,  six  pence. 

Church  breaking  ground,  ten  shillings. 

To  the  Church  for  being  buried  within  the  walls 

of  the  house,  ten  pounds. 

*3  Vol.  IX,  Papers  Hist.  Society  of  Delaware  (1890),  pp.  495-^96. 

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l^i^totv  ot  fet  paursf  Cpigicopal  €fiutc^ 


is  no  other  single  congregation  in  Philadelphia  which  has  done 
so  much  for  the  propagation  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

To  this  list  should  be  added,  St.  Paul's  Cheltenham,  now 
Ogontz,  of  which  two  vestrymen  of  St.  Paul's,  John  W. 
Thomas  and  Jay  Cooke,  were  among  the  founders.  The 
church  of  the  Holy  Apostles,  Twenty-first  and  Christian 
Streets,  Philadelphia,  is  equally  indebted  to  the  son  of  John 
W.  Thomas,  the  late  George  C.  Thomas,  one  of  the  city's 
most  charitable  laymen,  who  acknowledged  that  his  inspiration 
as  a  churchman  had  come  from  his  home  training  and  from  the 
Sunday  School  of  St.  Paul's,  which  he  had  attended  in  boy- 
hood days.  The  large  parish  building  of  the  Church  of  the 
Holy  Apostles  was  erected  by  Mr.  Thomas  "In  Memory  of 
Rev.  Dr.  Richard  Newton  of  St.  Paul's,"  the  compliment 
in  recognition  of  his  life  and  work  being  all  the  greater  be- 
cause the  building  was  erected  many  years  after  his  death. 
His  brother,  the  Rev.  Richard  Newton  Thomas,  was  named 
after  Dr.  Newton,  and  the  name  of  Mr.  Thomas  himself  is 
enshrined  in  a  church,  Fifty-first  and  Spruce  Streets,  known 
as  the  George  C.  Thomas  Memorial,  the  corner-stone  of  which 
was  laid  October  29,  1916.  The  Church  of  the  Holy  Apostles 
now  has  three  chapels :  The  Mediator,  The  Holy  Communion 
and  the  Chapel  of  St.  Simon  the  Cyrenian. 

Born  of  the  spirit  of  democracy  and  the  evangelical  move- 

^  .  .      ,         ment,  St.  Paul's  was,  at  its  inception,  and 
Spirit  of  f        , 

Democracy  and     ^^^  some  time  thereafter,  a  religious  storm 

Evangelical        center  and  the  story  is  full  of  human  interest. 

Movement  „,,  •    .  ,         «    ,      ^,         ,      » 

There  was  a  young  minister  of  the  Church  of 

England,  Rev.  William  McClenachan,  travelling  through  the 

city  of  Philadelphia,  who  preached  with  great  effect  at  Christ 

Church.  He  was  most  eloquent,  of  exemplary 
Mr.  McClenachan 

piety  among  the  people,  distinguished  for  re- 
markable industry  and  indefatigable  zeal  and  had  an  attractive 

44 


FONT. 


9^t,  ^tCLUnat^an 


personality.  He  had  so  much  to  recommend  him  and  had  be- 
come so  popular,  that  the  rector,  vestry  and  church  wardens, 
with  the  assent  of  the  congregation,  on  June  19,  1759,  selected 
him  as  an  assistant  minister  and  askedthe  Lord  Bishop  of  Lon- 
don for  his  approval.  Later  on,  the  third  of  October,  1759, 
Eev.  Dr.  Jenney  and  most  of  the  clergy  in  the  Province  sent 
a  counter  address,  protesting  that  Mr.  McClenachan  had 
given  offense  ''by  his  Railings  and  Revilings  in  the  Pulpit," 
and  that  "his  extemporaneous  Prayers  and  Preachings  were 
not  agreeable  to  the  Canons."  On  this  account,  and  because 
he  had  been  appointed  to  take  charge  of  a  church  in  Virginia, 
the  Bishop  of  London,  without  hearing  Mr.  McClenachan 's  de- 
fense, refused  to  license  him,  and  requested  Christ  Church 
to  give  him  no  encouragement. 

The  matter  had  doubtless  been  brought  to  a  sudden  climax 
by  Mr.  McClenachan 's  action  in  the  Convention,  or  Volun- 
tary Meeting  of  the  Episcopal  clergy**  of  Pennsylvania,  in 

Philadelphia,  April  30,  1760.      The  conven- 
Convention  of 
Episcopal    Clergy   ^ion,   pursuant  to   adjournment,   heard   the 

in  Philadelphia,     address   prepared   by   its   committee  to   his 

Honor    the     Lieutenant     Governor,     James 

Hamilton,  which  was  approved  by  all  the  members  present 

except  Mr.  McClenachan,  who  said  he  "could  not  give  any 

testimony   of  the   Governor's   former   administration,   as  he 

knew  nothing  of  the  same  from  his  personal  knowledge,  but 

*4  Those  present  were :  The  Eev.  Dr.  Jenney,  Dr.  William  Smith, 
Provost  of  the  College  of  Philadelphia,  Mr.  Greorge  Craig,  Missionary  at 
Chester,  Mr.  Philip  Eeading,  Missionary  at  Apoquinimink,  Mr.  William 
Sturgeon,  Assistant  Minister  and  Catechist  to  the  negroes  in  Philadel- 
phia, Mr.  Charles  Inglis,  Missionary  at  Dover,  Mr.  Thomas  Barton, 
Missionary  at  Lancaster,  Mr.  William  McClenachan,  another  of  the 
Assistant  Ministers  in  Christ  Church,  Philadelphia,  Mr.  Jacob  Duche, 
likewise  an  Assistant  Minister  at  Christ  Church.  At  the  same  time 
appeared  Mr.  Samuel  Cook  and  Mr.  Eobert  McKean,  two  of  the  society 's 
worthy  missionaries  of  New  Jersey. 

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m0tot]l  ot  &t  paur*^  episcopal  Cdutc^ 

that  he  had  the  sincerest  regard  for  his  Honor,  and  offered 
up  Prayers  for  his  prosperity. ' '  His  second  reason  was  that, 
"however  much  connected  Religion  and  Civil  Government 
might  be,  he  thought  it  was  not  absolutely  necessary  to  men- 
tion the  matter  in  our  present  circumstances." 

It  was  during  the  last  days  of  the  convention  that  the 
Bishop  of  London's  final  letter,  relative  to  Mr.  McClenachan 
arrived  and  was  read.*^  His  course  of  reasoning  many  of  the 
Christ  Church  people  deemed  insufficient,  being  determined 
to   maintain   and   protect   their  religious   rights.     Vigorous 

protest    followed.      Eighteen    Presbyterian 
Presbyterian  . 

Synod  clergymen,  then  assembled  in  Synod  in  Phil- 

in  Philadelphia,     adelphia.  May  28,  1760,  sent  an  unsolicited 
^^  °  address  in  behalf  of  Mr.  McClenachan  to  his 

Grace,  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  written  probably  by 
the  Rev.  Gilbert  Tennant.  On  the  eighteenth  of  June,  fol- 
lowing, Mr.  McClenachan  was,  however,  denied  the  further 
use  of  the  pulpit  of  the  church.  This  had  been  anticipated, 
protest  became  forceful  action  and  four  days  later  a  new  con- 
gregation met  in  the  State  House.  Nineteen  months  after- 
wards, the  congregation,  stronger  grown,  gathered  in  a  stately 
building  of  its  own,  St.  Paul's  Church  on  Third  Street,  below 
"Walnut  Street,  built,  as  set  forth  in  the  articles  of  agreement 

*5  Sunday  evening,  May  4,  1760.  The  convention  met  pursuant  to  ad- 
journment. A  letter  to  Dr.  Jenney  from  England  was  read,  intimating 
the  disapprobation  upon  the  part  of  the  Society  for  Propagating  the 
Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts  against  Mr.  McClenachan 's  conduct  in  this  place 
and  the  disapproval  of  the  Bishop  of  London.  It  was  the  sense  of  the 
meeting  that  though  he  could  not  be  allowed  longer  to  remain  assistant 
minister  of  Christ  Church,  he  could  be  allowed  to  sign  the  address  to  the 
Bishop  of  London,  or  any  other  papers  as  a  clergyman  of  the  church 
and  might  still  sit  in  Convention.  These  offers  he  refused,  and  desired 
that  his  name  might  be  erased  from  the  papers  he  had  already  signed, 
after  which  he  withdrew.  His  name  remained  on  the  address  to  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  (Perry's  "Papers  Eclating  to  the  History 
of  the  Church  in  Pennsylvania,"  1680-1778,  pp.  317-319.) 

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FONT    WITH    SILVER    BAPTISMAL    BOWL,    1917. 


mmttitin 


so  ably  prepared  by  John  Ross,  Esq.,  for  this  Rev.  William 

MeClenaehan,  the  erstwhile  censured  clergyman. 

Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  in  his  old  age,  was  authority  for 

the   statement   "that   St.   Paul's   Church  was  erected   that 

"Whitefield,  that  Apostle  of  the  Living  God,  that  Angel  flying 

throughout  the  World  with  the  everlasting  Gospel,  might  haive 

an  Episcopal  Church  in  which  to  preach  in  Philadelphia.     A 

tremendous  contest  had  ensued  from  the  refusal  of  the  rector 

and  Wardens  of  Christ   Church  to  permit  him  to  preach 

within  its  walls.     God  raised  up  an  instru- 
Whitefield  ,.        „         ,       .    „ 

mentality  for  the  defense  of  the  hated  and 

despised  gospel,  in  the  person  of  Counsellor  John  Ross,  a  man 
of  such  position  in  this  community,  that  he  could  not  be  put 
down,  who  in  conjunction  with  others,  determined  that  there 
should  be  one  church  in  Philadelphia  wherein  nothing  should 
deter  such  a  man  as  Whitefield  from  preaching  the  unsearch- 
able riches  of  Christ.  Thus  St.  Paul's  was  erected  for  the  de- 
fense of  a  free  gospel  and  the  champion  of  this  principle  it  had 
now  continued  to  be."  "No  other  sound,"  he  believed,  "had 
ever  been  heard  within  its  walls  than  the  gospel  in  its  purity 
and  simplicity."  The  error  in  this  statement  is  that,  the 
church  was  built  for  Dr.  MeClenaehan  and  not  George  White- 
field,  but  as  Dr.  MeClenaehan  maintained  the  methods  of 
Whitefield  it  is,  speaking  generally,  accurate  to  that  extent. 
A  lengthy  account  of  the  convention,  together  with  Me- 
Clenaehan's  part  therein  was  promptly  furnished  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury,  by  Dr.  William  Smith,  Provost  of  the 
Dr  Smith'  College  in  Philadelphia,  under  date  of  July 
Account  of  1>  1760,  which  was  certainly  neither  favor- 
Mr.  McClenachan's  able  nor  fair  to  the  clergyman.  He  says  in 
Followers 

part:  "The  number  that  followed  Mr.  Me- 
Clenaehan from  our  Church  to  his  Conventicle  are  but  incon- 
siderable: &  as  they  were  the  tools  of  the  Quaker  Party  to 

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^i^totTf  ot  ^t  ^auV0  episcopal  Ci^urcl^ 

distract  and  divide  we  think  sucli  a  purgation  a  happy  inci- 
dent. The  Church  [Christ  Church]  is  as  crowded  as  ever  on 
Sundays  and  great  numbers  are  not  able  to  get  Pews,  And 
as  for  my  particular  opponents  they  are  now  fairly  gone. 
They  are  about  Building  a  Place  of  Worship  for  Mr.  Macclen- 
aghan,  and  still  will  be  hardy  enough  to  sollicit  a  License  for 
him,  by  every  misrepresentation  of  all  the  regular  Clergy  both 
here  &  in  Boston.  But  I  hope  your  Grace  will  think  it  proper 
that  such  proceedings  that  tend  to  destroy  all  order  shall 
never  have  any  countenance.  The  Quakers  and  their  open 
adherents  are  the  chief  people  who  contribute  to  encourage 
this  schism.  One  of  the  oldest  Quakers  in  the  Province  has 
procured  the  Ground  on  which  the  House  is  to  be  built  so  that 
by  the  turn  this  affair  has  taken,  your  Grace  has  a  fresh  proof, 
were  any  necessary,  that  the  state  I  gave  of  these  matters  in 
all  my  former  representations  was  just." 

Col.  William  Byrd,  second,  said,  ''The  Quakers  flocked  to 
this  country  in  shoals,  being  averse  to  going  to  Heaven  the 
same  way  with  the  Bishops."  This,  in  a  humorous  way,  ex- 
pressed the  Churchman's  view  of  the  Quaker.'*^^ 

The  Quakers  and  the  members  of  the  Church  of  England 
were  the  aristocratic  class.  In  public  life  in  early  Pennsyl- 
vania there  were  two  distinct  types  of  men.  The  first,  pro- 
gressive, eloquent,  earnest,  learned  and  convincing.  Thomas 
McKean,  John  B.  Gibson,  Jeremiah  F,  Black,  William  McClen- 
achan  and  Joseph  Pilmore  represent  the  first  class,  although 
not  of  the  same  faith.     The  second,  equally  learned,  but  sure 

.,,.,  ,  of  their  social  position,  quiet,  colorless,  re- 

Attitude  ^  .        _ 

of  tiring,  modest,  insipid,  critical  and  uninter- 

Quakers  esting.     This  type  dominated  Christ  Church, 

while  the  spirit  and  energy  of  the  first  animated  St.  Paul's. 

45a  He  was  the  aristocratic  Virginian  of  the  celebrated  plantation 
' '  Westover ' '  on  the  James  Eiver,  the  founder  of  the  Capital  City,  Eich- 

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Sittit\xne  ot  ;^uafier0 


St.  Paul's  congregation  had  no  divided  allegiance,  like  some 
of  the  other  English  Churches  in  America.  Its  strength  in 
this  respect  was  that  while  loyal  to  the  principles  of  the  estab- 
lished Church,  in  all  else,  it  was  thoroughly  American,  and  its 
aims,  purposes  and  acts  were  those  which  have  made  the 
United  States  the  nation  she  is  today.  Many  of  the  ministers 
of  the  Church  of  England,  and  some  of  their  congregations,  re- 
sembled the  attitude  of  the  nobles  in  France,  residing  at  Ver- 
sailles in  the  time  of  Louis  XIV,  who  were  polished,  but  hard 
as  granite,  and  who  exacted  from  the  people  all  the  tributes 
and  duties  prescribed  by  the  feudal  laws,  but  who  themselves 
had  long  ceased  to  render  any  service  whatever.  They  were 
a  liability  instead  of  an  asset  to  the  State.  They  took  all 
they  could  get,  in  fact  everything,  and  rendered  nothing  in 
return. 

In  a  letter  of  August  26,  to  the  secretary  of  the  Society  for 
the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,  Dr.  Smith 
said: 

"  I  wrote  to  you  a  long  letter  by  Mr.  Keene  about  seven  weeks 
ago  with  a  full  account  of  everything'  concerning  MaeClenachan  and 
a  copy  of  the  Minutes  of  the  late  meeting  of  our  Clergy  together 
with  an  address  to  His  Grace  of  Canterbury;  all  of  which  I  hope 
have  been   duly  received.     MaeClenachan  gains  no  ground  in  the 

U  n  n  Ti  ("burch,  and  we  have  lost  but  two  or  three  men 
of  any  note  (one  of  which  is  John  Ross  who  has 
not  acted  like  a  member  of  your  body  and  Son  of  a  regular  clergy- 
man as  he  is,  being  the  chief  founder  of  all  this  trouble  in  order  to 
be  at  the  head  of  a  party).  The  Quakers  and  their  adherents  are  the 
chief  support  of  this  schism  agreeable  to  their  Maxim  Divide  et 
impera,  but  we  think  it  will  not  hold  long,  especially  as  that  shining 
youth  Mr.  Duche*®  is  so  much  more  popular  than  MaeClenachan, 

mond,  then  called  * '  Shockoes ' '  and  an  ancestor  of  S.  Davis  Page,  Esq.,  the 
President  of  the  Colonial  Society  of  Pennsyvania  and  a  vestryman  of  St. 
Peter's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Philadelphia. 

46  Eev.  Dr.  Jacob  Duehe,  the  rector  of  Christ  Church,  September,  1775, 
resembled  the  "Vicar  of  Bray,"  who  was  first  for  King  Charles  I  and 
then  for   Cromwell.     His   eloquent   prayer   in  Congress  at   Carpenter's 
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^i0tot}f  ot  fet  ^auV0  (Episcopal  C|)urc|& 

who  only  draws  the  lower  sort  and  of  these  more  from  the  Presby- 
terians and  Baptists  than  from  us." 

Dr.  Smith  was  mistaken  in  both  these  latter  statements,  and 
that  Ross's  influence,  position  and  standing  in  England  was 
high  is  shown,  among  other  things,  by  the  fact  that  he  pro- 
cured the  dismissal  of  Rev.  "William  Sturgeon  from  Christ 
Church  in  November,  1763. 

Mr.  Sturgeon's  view  of  St.  Paul's  congregation  is  set  forth 
in  his  letter  of  1762  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Venerable  So- 
ciety, viz. : 

"Rev^.  Sir: 

"  My  endeavors  to  inculcate  truth  and  virtue  in  the  Minds  of  Man- 
kind have  been  in  some  measure  successful  and  at  the  same  time  has 
increased  the  Church  of  England  in  these  parts. 
Mr.  Sturgeon's     ^yj^^^   j   arrived   here   first,    Christ   Church   con- 
view  or 

_^   _,    „  tained  all  the  people  of  our  communion,  but  now 

St.  Paul's  f    f  _      '  . 

Consrepation      there  are  two  more  created.     St.  Peter's  united 

with  the  old  Church  and  St.  Paul's  built  for  Mr. 

McClanaghan  mostly  filled  with  people  to  whom  I  discharged  the 

duties  of  a  Cateehist  and  Assistant  Minister  to  the  Reverend  Dr. 


Hall  resulted  in  his  election  as  its  chaplain,  which  position  he  occu- 
pied at  the  time  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  in  July,  1776.  He 
resigned  when  the  British  Army  was  advancing  to  Philadelphia  after  the 
Battle  of  Brandywine,  and,  upon  its  arrival,  he  as  rector,  just  as 
enthusiastically  prayed  for  the  King  and  * '  that  he  may  vanquish  and 
overcome  all  his  enemies. ' '  General  Howe  confined  him  in  prison  one 
night  and  released  him  upon  his  promise  to  convince  Washington  and 
his  fellow  rebels  of  their  mistake.  He  advised  Washington  to  abandon 
"the  wretched  cause,"  but  without  avail.  As  our  histories  gently  record 
it :  "  He  retired  from  Philadelphia  when  the  British  evacuated  it. ' '  He 
subsequently  returned  to  London  to  straighten  himself  out  with  his 
English  Bishop  and  to  explain  that,  while  Chaplain  of  Congress  he  was 
at  heart  loyal  to  the  King  and  England  and  believed  in  the  union  of 
Church  and  State,  but  his  explanation  was  not  accepted  or  believed. 
When  he  left  the  Colony,  Pennsylvania  judged  him  by  his  acts,  pro- 
claimed him  a  traitor  and  confiscated  his  estate.  After  some  twelve 
years  of  exile  he  came  back  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  died,  January  3, 
1798.  Both  he  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Hopkinson,  are  buried  in  St. 
Peter's  Churchyard. 

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Jenney  for  about  ten  years  and  upon  his  being  seized  with  a  palsy 
for  three  years  and  a  half,  without  any  help  at  all. 
*'  I  am,  Rev,  Sir,  &c. 

"  William  Sturgeon/' 

His  letter  of  November  20,  1763,  to  the  Secretary,  pays 
a  tribute  to  Mr.  MeClenachan's  eloquence,  and  comments  on 
the  unfairness  of  his  own  dismissal  from  Christ  Church : 

"Rev^.  Doctor, 

"  Dr.  Jenney  was  seized  with  a  palsy  which  continued  to  his  death, 
and  laid  the  whole  duty  of  the  Parish  [Christ  Church]  on  me  for 
more  than  five  years.  This  I  acquainted  the  Society  with  and  also 
that  my  family  was  large  and  my  support  very  small,  and  therefore 
requested  to  be  removed  to  some  Mission,  or  that  they  would  increase 
my  salary.  This  they  were  pleased  to  grant  and  added  £20  a  year 
to  my  former  £30. 

"  In  this  situation  things  were  till  the  arrival  of  ^Ir.  McClenanehan 

who  was  invdted  to  preach  in  our  church  and  soon  drew  numbers 

after  him  and  set  the  whole  congregation  on  fire  (one  of  the  chief  of 

his  partizans  was  Mr.  John  Ross,  a  Member  of  the  Hon'''®  Society) 

and  after  some  time  he  was  dismissed  the  Church  and  went  to  preach 

at  the  State  House,  to  a  large  number  of  people, 

„,  and  Mr.  Ross  at  their  head.     In  the  meantime  I 

Eloquence 

did  what  I  could  to  keep  the  people  together,  and 

sometimes  almost  in  danger  of  my  life  from  an  incensed  Mob  and  a 

few  artful  Libertines.     This  I  gave  an  account  of  to  the  Society  in 

my  letters  from  time  to  time,  and  also  that  I  expected  no  favour 

from  one  or  two  powerful  enemies.     The  chief  of  these  facts  Dr. 

Smith,  if  he  should  be  called  upon,  would  testify.     At  length  Dr. 

Jenney  died  and  I  was  elected  one  of  the  Ministers  of  the  United 

Churches  of  which  I  acquainted  you,  and  that  the  Vestry  voted  my 

Salary  from  the   Hon.'''®   Society   as   part  of  my   living.     All  this 

time  I  preached  twice  every  Sunday  and  read  prayers  and  did  all 

other  duties  of  the  parish,  and  on  Wednesdays  catechised  the  white 

children,  and  on  every  Friday  the  Negroes,  and  instructed  both  in  the 

sense  and  purport  of  each  part ;  and  for  more  than  17  years  preached 

every  Tuesday  at  the  City  Alms  House,  and  once  in  three  weeks 

during  the  Summer  season  went  to  a  church  in  the  country  that  has 

no  Minister,  and  read  prayers  and  preached  and  did  baptize  many. 

This  has  been  my  constant  method  from  my  first  arrival  to  this  day 

and  lo!  now  I  am  discharged  from  the  service  of  one  of  the  most 

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^i^:z77  01  SL  Paul's  episcopal  C^arrti 


S^aetia  »  Oe  WoHd.  mmd  mkat  a  aosf  hmwd  to  hemr.  for 

'.^Sy  to  tike  megwoes,  «Ml  hg  tite  taemms  of  erne  wAo  Tms  heem 

"viaemt  of  £wiiimy  omr  ebmrA.    He  is  mmd  tms  beem  lom§ 

:  I  §k»ry  fo  Jhme  him  m  smA  tM  God  is  pUmsed  to 

-      J  ^an  Mr.  Jekm  fio»  of  Ais  City,  who  has  heem 

'vmaOt  mms  to  St.  PmmL 

-I  izi    7  '.  &e^ 


dergy.  r           :  S^Biitli  and  some    :  I         =a 

depaxtare  ±r:— z'-^      ^               :  ~  r  le- 

thxtgie,  apathr-  ^  ^  ^   ^        —       ^  .^^ 

of  Ae  Onndi  : :  _    .  _"-.-:,:::  ^  i. 

of  England  del             :!>.  l^leC:  -i    _.  i 

widi  liim  at  St    _  "   £     r  i 

XlUBl   its  {dole  -  l_    .'  IjS   SCI    iri.    II 

preaeti^; 

Upo:!    Mt  :  lining  of  Mr.  'Wliitefiel  7hia  in  1763, 

SL  Paol's  opened  wide  its  doon,  as  .     :<f  Fhila- 

de^iia,  nam  tlie  Univeistv  of  Tez-i  7       ::  —  r r  :- 
lor  of  Clnist  dnnciu  Bcr.  Bie>         7 

kofTPver  tte  United  Coiizr?r5"r:                 _:^-       _  .   _   ^:. 


€f 


Ca^itrtulD  ^UcLC^tt  at  C^nsi  C^ucc^ 


Peter  "s,  who.  by  their  church  wardens,  signified  that  they  were 
one  and  all  desirous  that  Mr.  "WTiitfield  should  be  invited  to 
speak  in  the  churches.      This  request.  Dr. 
Pie&dies    t       peters  complied  with  after  c-onsultation  with 
Christ  Clmrch,     Dr.  Duche,  Mr.  Sturgeon,  the  Governor  and 
St,   Peter's        ^^jj^^  other  friends  of  the  church,  "who  were 
St.  Paul's         ^  unanimously  of  opmion.     says  Dr.  Peters 
™  in  a  letter  to  Archbishop  Seeker,  of  Oeto- 

ber  17.  that  such  action  ''might  not  only 
prevent  dissatisfaction  &  a  further  disunion  among  the  mem- 
bers, who  might  when  displeased  go  over  to  Mr.  McClenachan, 
but  might  really  confirm  those  that  belong  to  us  &  perhaps 
get  us  an  increase.  "*- 

This  decided  gain  in  spiritual  vision  was  in  happy  relief  to 
the  narrowness  and  rancor  of  the  preceding  years.  The 
leaven  of  St.  Paul's  was  accomplishing  its  purpose.  A  de- 
parture had  been  made.  St.  Paul's,  turned  aside  from  the 
formalism  of  Christ  Church,  for  example,  where  a  somewhat 
lifeless  service  was  conducted  and  where  sittings  were  less 
than  half  filled,  secured  popular  and  convincing  preachers, 
with  the  result  that  it  was  crowded  to  the  doors  with  those 
who  flocked  to  hear  the  word  of  God  and  the  story  of  the 
Cross  told  with  earnestness  and  simplicity. 

Some  shadows  there  were  in  the  early  years  of  the  new 

*«  A  conflict  appears  in  the  swtements  of  Dr.  Peter*  and  Mr.  Neil 
The  former  savs,  under  date  of  October  17,  1763:  "Mr.  ^Vhitlield 
preached  four  times  in  one  or  the  other  ehurehes"  [Christ  Churv.'h.  and 
St.  Peter's].  The  latter  writes,  on  October  IS.  17ft4:  "but  the  salutary 
admonitions  of  His  Grace  the  Archbishop  to  the  Bector  of  Christ  Churv'h 
and  St.  Peter's  has  prevented  his  preaching  at  this  time  in  either  of 
them.  ■ '  It  is  possible  that  ' '  the  salutary  admonitions  * '  were  His 
Grace's  reply  to  Dr.  Peters'  letter.  ^ Parry's  "Papers  Belating  to  the 
History  of  the  Church  in  Pennsylvania,  lt>Sl^l77S. '  *  pp.  363.  393.) 

itr.  "^Vhitfield  died  at  Xewburyport,  Massachusetts,  September  30^ 
1770,  aged  fiftv-six  vears. 


church.  From  October,  1777,  to  January,  1781,  it  had  no 
regular  minister;  indeed,  the  Rev.  William  "White  of  Christ 
Church  was  the  only  Episcopal  clergyman  in  Philadelphia. 
Nevertheless,  the  principles  and  policies,  for  which  it  had 
stood  in  the  beginning,  continued  until  after  the  pastorate  of 
the  Rev.  Richard  Newton,  who  was  peculiarly  successful  in 
this  regard,  and  St.  Paul's  reached  its  high-water  mark  of 
usefulness  while  he  was  rector. 

The  Episcopal  Church  as  an  institution  did  not  grow  with 

the  increase  of  population,  as  it  should  have  done  in  this  new 

country.     After  the  Revolution  the  Church  of  England  in 

America  was,  as  an  organization,  considered 

Lack  of  Growth  of  ^^^^  According  to  Bishop  Williams  of 
Episcopal   Church 

Connecticut,  it  was  regarded  as  "a  piece  of 

heavy  baggage  which  the  British  had  left  behind  them,  when 

they  evacuated  Philadelphia,  New  York  and  Boston,"  and 

John  Marshall,    afterwards   Chief   Justice   of   the    Supreme 

Court  of  the  United  States,  a  churchman,  thought  the  Church 

too  far  gone  to  be  ever  revived. 

Many  churchmen  reluctantly  admit  that,  when  peace  was 
declared,  the  condition  of  the  church  was  very  discouraging, 
there  being  only  about  a  hundred  clergy  in  the  land.  It  may 
seem  strange  that  the  church  was  not  stronger,  having  been 
in  the  country  over  one  hundred  and  seventy  years.  There 
were,  however,  four  causes  which  accounted  for  this :  first, 
the  majority  of  the  colonists  were  dissenters;  second,  there 
had  been  no  bishops,  and  therefore  no  confirmations  in  the 
colonial  church;  third,  because  of  the  difficulty  and  danger 
attending  ordination,  many  earnest  young  men  entered  the 
ministry  of  other  religious  bodies.  A  fourth  reason  as- 
signed was  that  there  were  so  many  drones  in  the  Church. 

To  these,  two  other  contributory  causes  may  be  added : 
First,  the  attitude  of  condescension  upon  the  part  of  many 

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Wita0on0  tot  Eacfe  of  C5totot5  of  ^WtC^ 


rectors  towards  a  large  portion  of  their  congregations,  an 
unsympathetic  manner,  based  largely  upon  social  position. 
The  divine  command  was,  ' '  Go  into  all  the  world,  and  preach 
Reasons  for  Lack  *^^  Gospel  to  every  creature, ' '  the  cultivated 
of  Growth  of  and  uncultivated;  whereas  the  church  relied 
Church  fQj.  -^g  strength  upon  the  wealthy,  the  offi- 

cial and  aristocratic  classes.  "Every  creature,"  means  the 
common  people,  the  store  keepers,  farmers  and  mechanics. 
These  were  not  taught  to  understand  the  church,  its  doctrines, 
discipline  and  worship,  or  did  not  have  its  mission  presented 
to  them  in  a  way  to  bring  them  in  large  numbers  within  its 
fold.  Second,  high  and  low  church  factions  in  the  Church, 
which  pulled,  and  still  pull  from  rather  than  towards  unity 
of  purpose  and  worship.  No  organization  divided  against 
itself  succeeds.  If  these  factions  could  compromise  their  dif- 
ferences, unite  not  divide,  the  Church  would  increase  by 
leaps  and  bounds.  They  should  also  resolve  that,  in  future, 
no  rivalry  in  works  of  charity  shall  exist.  That,  ordinarily, 
this  is  a  part  of  Church  work  and  should  be  administered  by 
the  Church  without  waste  of  money  or  labor  and  not  by  out- 
side organizations.  Then  too,  strong  representative  clergy- 
men of  the  various  dioceses  have  time  after  time  been  ignored 
as  unavailable  material  for  bishops.  The  ecclesiastical  ad- 
ministration of  those  selected  under  such  conditions,  unsup- 
ported by  a  strongly  united  church,  has,  necessarily,  been  a 
series  of  compromises  which  pleases  none,  and  accomplishes 
little  for  the  future  well-being  of  the  Church.  Its  policy 
and  management  from  the  standpoint  of  organization  alone 
has  always  been  hesitating  and  weak. 

The  result  therefore  is,  that  this  great  historic  church,  with 
its  splendid  opportunity  in  America,  has  failed  to  propagate 
the  faith  "delivered  to  the  Saints,"  and  has 
Church     ^      ^^^°  failed  to  bring  the  Gospel  overwhelm- 
ingly to  the  masses,  as  was  its  mission.     In 
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^ifitoti^  of  &t  paur^  (Episcopal  Cj^utcj^ 

1784,  by  the  refusal  of  Lowth,  Bishop  of  London,  to  ordain 
a  few  ministers  for  the  missionary  movement  in  the  Church 
of  England,  under  Rev.  John  Wesley,  conducted  in  America 
by  the  Revs.  Thomas  Coke  and  Francis  Asbury,  it  lost  at 
least  one  hundred  thousand  members,  its  real  bone  and  sinew, 
who  formed  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  at  a  time  the 
Church  of  England  in  America  could  ill  afford  to  lose  them. 

After  the  organization  of  the  Methodist  Church  a  con- 
ference was  proposed  by  Bishop  Coke  to  Bishops  Seabury, 
White  and  Madison,  on  the  hypothesis  of  a  possible  union  of 
the  two  churches  which  included  ordination  of  its  ministers 
under  proper  mutual  stipulation,*'*  White  replied,  and 
Bishop  Madison  was  in  favor  of  it,  but  he  was  unable  to  con- 
vince White  and  Seabury.  Thus  the  church  lost  the  oppor- 
tunity of  the  century  through  the  incapacity  of  the  old  bishops 
to  comprehend  new  conditions.  They  had  failed  to  profit 
by  the  former  blunders  of  the  Bishops  of  the  Mother  Church, 
by  which  the  Church  of  England  had  lost  respectively  the 
Puritan,  the  Presbyterian,  and  the  Quaker  through  their 
unbending  strictness.  Each  one  of  these  religious  revivals 
constituted  a  new  Church  opposed  to  the  establishment  in 
America,  but  the  experience  of  the  past  meant  nothing  to  the 
bishops.  In  our  time  this  folly  has  been  repeated  by  the 
Church  of  England  regarding  the  Salvation  Army.  It  de- 
clined to  help  or  recognize  that  organization  until  it  had  be- 
come so  large  that  it  was  too  late. 

Conservatism  is  right,  but  ultra  conservatism,  the  failure 
to  understand  great  opportunities  and  grasp  them,  does  not 
tend  to  strengthen,  build  up  or  even  maintain  a  church  or- 
ganization, as  a  principle,  it  can  be  carried  to  the  point  of  frit- 
tering away  what  ought  to  be  natural  growth  and  strength. 

Statistics  show  the  result  of  this  want  of  .policy : 

49  Beardsley  's  ' '  Life  of  Seabury, ' '  p.  401. 

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In  1906  in  the  United  States,  the  Methodist  Church  had 
17%o  per  cent.,  or  six  times  the  membership  of  the  Episcopal 
Church : 

The  Roman  Catholic  had 36yio  per  cent. 

e  igious  ^^^  Presbyterian   5%o  per  cent.- 

The  Lutheran   6^10  per  cent. 

The  Disciples   3%o  per  cent. 

The  Reformed lYio  per  cent. 

The   Congregational    2yio  per  cent. 

The  Episcopalian 2%o  per  cent. 

All  others    6%o  per  cent. 

The  Episcopal  Church  is  almost  at  the  end  of  the  list.  The 
American  Church  is  small  and  her  life  meagre.  Why  did  the 
church  not  spread  ?  It  was  planted  at  Jamestown,  Virginia,  in 
1607  and  Virginia  and  Maryland  was  her  stronghold.  Massa- 
chusetts and  Connecticut  had  the  Congregationalists  and  Pres- 
byterians, Rhode  Island  the  Baptists,  while  the  Pennsylvania 
Colonists  were  principally  Quakers.^''  These  figures  just 
quoted  are  significant.  With  them  before  it,  ought  not  the 
Episcopal  Church  of  America  ask,  whether  its  policies  and 
administration  have  been  and  are  not  now  wrong  somewhere  ? 
If  so,  be  it  men  or  measures,  it  is  not  time  to  find  a  remedy 
and  make  speedy  application  thereof? 

In  the  long  run  numbers  not  only  count,  but  they  spell 
progress  and  success.  Much  depends  on  the  bishop ;  he  should 
not  only  be  a  Churchman  of  broad  views,  possessed  of  great 
knowledge,  but  have  a  commanding  presence  and  real  execu- 
tive ability,  and,  as  Dr.  McConnell  says,  ''have  sustained  en- 
thusiasm, the  faculty  of  managing  men,  a  genius  for  organi- 
zation, able  to  build  up  and  develop  his  church  as  a  mighty 

50  Anderson 's  "Hist,  of  the  English  Church  in  the  Colonies,"  vol.  1, 
p.  9'9.  McConnell's  "Hist,  of  the  American  Episcopal  Church,"  pp.  11, 
12,  13. 

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ecclesiastical  empire,"  along  the  lines  of  belief  his  church 
maintains  and  represents. 

It  is  a  mere  commonplace  to  say  that  our  ancestors  who  at- 
tended St.  Paul's  led,  as  a  rule,  plain,  simple  and  unpreten- 
tious lives.  Family  worship  took  place  regularly  each  day 
before  breakfast  and  just  before  retiring  at  night.  Their 
religious  life  was  extended  throughout  the  week,  and  not  con- 

_  ,.  .       ,.,     ,    fined  to  the  services  in  the  church  on  Sun- 
Religious  Life  of 

St.  Paul's  day.  They  were  moral  in  their  conduct. 
Parishioners  Justice  to  them  presented  no  difficulties.  A 
man  or  a  woman  either  had,  or  had  not,  broken  the  law, 
whether  mala  in  se  or  mala  prohibita  only.  If  they  had,  they 
should  be  punished  severely.  Temptation,  hardship,  or  ex- 
tenuating circumstances  they  regarded  as  mere  excuses  of  the 
weak  and  criminal  not  worthy  of  consideration.  Before  each 
meal  grace  was  reverently  said,  and  if  omitted,  the  rector  of 
St.  Paul's  would  likely  hear  of  it  because  it  was  apt  to  cause 
remark,  if  not  scandal.  Business  honor,  honesty  and  sobriety 
were  high.  A  man  paid  his  debts,  if  he  failed  to  do  so  he 
could  be  imprisoned  until  as  late  as  1842,  and  he  lost  caste 
and  position.  All  of  his  property  was  liable  for  his  debts, 
as  no  exemption  of  $300  existed  until  1849.  Philadelphia 
in  1770  had  less  population  than  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  has 
to-day.  Every  one  knew  everyone  else  and  their  business  and 
resources,  and  most  people  were  frugal  and  industrious  and 
lived  within  their  means  without  trying  to  outshine  their 
neighbors  and  friends.     The  father  and  mother  of  the  family 

were   not   only   honored   and   respected   by 
Respect  to 
Parents  their  children,  but  they  obeyed  them  implic- 

not  Empty        itly.    The  commandment  * '  Honor  thy  Father 
ormu  a  ^^^  ^^^  Mother,  that  thy  days  maj^  be  long 

upon  the  land  which  the  Lord  thy  God  giveth  thee,"  was  un- 
derstood not  as  an  empty  formula  but  to  mean  what  it  said. 

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The  father  came  home  about  noon  for  his  dinner  which,  as 
a  rule,  cooked  by  his  wife,  was  good  and  wholesome,  although 
the  statute  books  at  that  period  were  without  any  pure  food 
legislation. 

Sunday  was  observed  strictly  and  no  unnecessary  work  per- 
mitted. The  parlor  windows  were  kept  bowed,  which  ex- 
cluded the  sunlight  and  fresh  air  from  its  inmates  and  the 
horse-hair  furniture,  and  created  what  was  then  considered 
the  proper  religious  atmosphere. 

This  however  was  but  the  strictness  of  sober  custom,  un- 
regulated by  law  as  in  early  Massachusetts,  when  it  was  for- 
bidden to  run  or  walk  on  the  Sabbath  day  except  reverently 
to  meeting,  to  sweep  the  house,  to  cook,  or  for  a  man  to  shave, 
or  for  a  woman  under  penalty  of  imprisonment  to  wear  cloth- 
ing beyond  her  station  in  life.^^ 

The  mid-day  meal  was  cooked  on  Saturday.     Whether  it 

consisted  of  chicken,  beef,  veal,  mutton,  lamb,  ham,   quail, 

wild  duck  or  pheasants,  it  was  served  cold  after  returning 

„.     ,.  .^  from  church.     The  only  deviation  was  pota- 

Simphcity  "^  ^ 

of  toes,  or  perhaps  peas  or  lima  beans  in  season, 

Home-life  which  were  all  boiled  together  in  one  large 
iron  pot  with  three  short  legs,  hanging  upon  the  crane  in  the 
large  open  fireplace  over  blazing  oak  or  hickory  logs.  The 
potatoes  were  put  in  the  pot  first,  then  the  beans  and  peas  in 
separate  cotton  bags  securely  tied,  so  as  to  keep  them  sep- 
arate. If  a  guest  were  expected,  an  extra  potato  or  so  was 
added,  and,  in  the  language  of  the  day,  his  or  her  name  "was 
in  the  pot." 

To  the  younger  members  of  the  family,  by  reason  of  its 
strict  observance,  Sunday  was  a  day  of  unusual  gloom.    They 

51  General  Laws  of  Mass.,  1640,  printed  at  Cambridge,  1660,  pp.  3,  6, 
9-26.  The  same,  revised  by  Samuel  Green,  Cambridge,  1672.  Laws  of 
Connecticut,  Hartford,  1672,  pp.  21,  28,  37.  JSTeals  and  Hutchinson's 
"Digests  of  Ordinances  of  New  England." 

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^i0toti9  ot  &t  paur-sf  (Episcopal  Cj^urcj^ 

repeated  a  portion  of  the  Catechism,  or  of  a  chapter  of  the 

Bible  before  breakfast  and  some  more  of  it  before  supper 

and  all  of  it  before  going  to  bed.     In  point  of  fact  they  were 

instructed  as  Moses  taught  the  children  of  Israel  to  regard 

the  commandments  ''when  thou  sittest  in  thine  house,  and 

when  thou  walkest  by  the  way  and  when  thou  liest  down  and 

when  thou  risest  up."     Scripture  was  applied  literally  in 

those  days.     Saturday  night  they  were  asked  if  they  knew 

their  Sunday   School  lessons.     They  were  also   expected  to 

take  a  bath,  get  out  their  best  clothes,  and  blacken  their  shoes 

so  as  to  be  ready  for  Sunday.     The  bath  was  taken  in  a  wash 

tub  and  the  water  came  from  the  pump.     Bathrooms  did  not 

commence  to  appear  in  Philadelphia  houses  until  about  1840. 

Sunday  School  commenced  at  nine  o'clock 
Observance 

of  and  lasted  until  10:15.     At  10:30  they  at- 

Sunday  tended    church    service    which    lasted    until 

12:30  o'clock,  at  least.  Then  home  to  dinner  and  just  before 
dessert  appeared,  which  they  disliked  particularly  to  be  de- 
prived of,  they  were  hurried  back  to  Sunday  School  for  the 
afternoon  session  at  two  o'clock  which  lasted  until  church 
service  began.  During  Doctor  Richard  Newton's  rectorship, 
Sunday  School  was  omitted  on  the  third  Sunday  of  each 
month,  which  was  the  occasion  of  the  children's  sermon,  for 
which  he  was  so  famous,  and  which  was  part  of  the  regular 
service  of  the  Church. 

The  elder  members  of  the  family  frequently  attended  serv- 
ice in  the  evening.  If  it  so  happened  that  there  was  no 
service  at  St.  Paul's,  or  if  some  minister  was  to  preach  whom 
they  did  not  care  to  hear,  it  being  not  unusual  at  that  time 
for  rectors  to  exchange  pulpits,  they  attended  the  service  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  to  hear  Rev.  Doctor  Albert 
Barnes,  or  the  Reverend  George  Cookman  of  the  Methodist 
Church,  or  the  Reverend  John  Chambers  of  the  Presbyterian 

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Church,  or  other  great  pulpit  orators  of  the  time,  while  the 

children,  worn  out  with  the  religious  observance  of  the  day, 

went  gladly  to  bed. 

Sunday  was  the  great  day  of  the  week.     To  a  considerable 

extent  the  church  was  the  social  center.     Strict  churchmen 

were  not  wont  to  attend  the  theatre.     The  times  and  system 

_  ,  ,     .  of  religion  were  strict,  but  it  produced  a 

God-feanng  ^ 

Men  and  strong,  rugged,  honest,  capable,  God-fearing 

Women  p^^g  ^f  jj^gji  and  women,  who  thought  that 

plain  living  and  high  thinking  were  more  important  than 
money;  that  mere  social  position,  prestige  and  pleasure  was 
not  worth  the  sacrifice  of  the  solid  and  substantial  things  of 
life. 

It  was  quite  customary  for  the  principal  families  of  the 

congregation  to  own  their  pews.     Philadelphians  regarded  it 

as  not  quite  respectable  to  occupy  a  rented  house  or  a  rented 

pew;  hence  those  who  could  afford  it  owned 

Ownership         ^^^  houses  in  which  they  lived  and  the  pews 
of  Pews 

they   occupied    in   church.      Originally   the 

latter  were  bought  outright  and  insured  the  owner  per- 
manence of  location  as  well  as  the  right  of  burial  in  the 
Church.  Each  owner  had  his  name  on  a  silver  plate  on  the 
pew  door  and  paid  an  annual  pew  rent  smaller  in  amount 
than  those  who  rented. 

Subject  to  the  approval  of  the  vestry  the  owner  could  rent 
or  sell.  On  March  3,  1835,  Richard  Rowley  sold  his  pew, 
numbered  fifteen  in  the  middle  aisle,  to  William  Cummings, 
grandfather  of  the  writer,  for  one  hundred  and  eighty  dollars. 
In  England  each  parish  church  had  certain  pews  which  be- 
longed to  the  various  nobility  and  landed  gentry  by  grant  from 
the  ordinary  or  church  wardens,  or  by  prescription,  and  which, 
always  reserved  for  their  use,  passed  under  the  law  to  the 
heir  with  the  land  as  appurtenant  to  the  dwelling  house. 

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Deed  for  William  Cummings  Family  Pew,     1835. 


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I 


ST.  PAUL'S  CHURCH. 


53 


^ii$i  ^<S<ttf5  ^^rftfB  that  -J^a/c^i^  /3-cA-il^ 
hming  jMMi  ttlAtf  Btelar^OatAWfTinK  «>ul  Fulrymai  of  St.  f  aufcCkurcA,  , 
imOuatfof  Pkaadtlphia,tkt  $im  0/^^^  a1c^»l0^<^^^  ^x^<f^^  aC^^ 
DoUan,  (being  ikt  whole  purehut  mmiey  thtrtof)  i$  entitUi  in  ahtolute  ou>ner$hip 

to  — tkt  Pew  imm*«Te(!^'^^i:«-«<^  in  the  taid  Church, 

tultjeet  to  ihi  termt  and  eonditioru  0/  $ah,  and  la  the  by-lawi  0/  the  $aid  corpora- 
tion, made  and  to  be  made  pur$utnt  to  their  charter.  Trane/erabh  with  tht  eon- 
tent  0/  the  Teilry  only. 

WmVeSS  the  nal  of  tht  eorperalion  at  Fkiladtlphia,  thiiyi^itt^^f 
daf  oftS^^t'»**<-^'*^t,    •  JtKM  Ihnmxx  oat  thovMtnd  eight  kandrtd  and  <Airly^«e. 


^!^^^  c^^aa^ 


^a*.fi^ 


rffc/wKr^rsr 


53  William  Spohn  Baker  married,  May  12,  1853,  Eliza  Downing, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Jane  Bartleson  Rowley,  their  daughter  Laura 
married  Henry  Whelen,  Jr.,  of  Philadelphia.  {Fenna.  Mag.  of  Hist,  and 
Biog.,  vol.  22,  p.  6.) 

54  John  Farr,  Chemist,  Powers  &  Weightman's.  J.  D.  George,  father 
of  Henry  George,  the  single  tax  advocate. 

62 


flDtonergfliip  of  petosf 


The  pew  in  England,  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut  is  real 
estate,  in  Pennsylvania  however  pews  are  held  personal  prop- 
erty as  to  devolution,  although  strictly  speaking  an  interest 
in  real  estate.^^ 

At  St.  Paul's,  from  the  family  pews  and  other  sittings,  a 
succession  of  happy  groups  passed  singly  on  to  the  great  be- 
yond, while  eighteen  rectors  came  and  went,  the  measure  of 
whose  rectorates  is  largely  the  history  of  the  parish  from  1760 
to  1898.     The  story  of  these  godly  men,  these  sometimes  bril- 
liant and  sometimes  lesser  lights  of  the  church,  is  of  more 
than  parochial  interest  from  the  fact  that,  it  is  in  part  the  his- 
tory of  the  intrusion  of  the  Church  of  England  into  Penn's 
"Holy   Experiment,"   with   the   subsequent 
Contribution       result    of   the    formation   of   the    American 
*o  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  to  which,  as 

American  ^^^^  ^^  ^°  *^^  general  religious  life  and  up- 

Episcopal         lift  of  Philadelphia,  St.  Paul's  clergy  and 
Church  people  contributed  no  small  part  from  the 

time  of  the  adoption  of  her  articles  of  agreement. 

In  this  connection,  the  eloquent  words  of  the  Rev.  Richard 
Newton,  D.D.,  at  the  Centennial  Anniversary  of  St.  Paul's, 
November  4,  1860,  are  particularly  apposite : 

52  Church  V.  Wells  Executors,  24  Penna.  State  Eeports,  251  (1855); 
Commonwealth  v.  St.  Mary's  Church,  C.  B.  &  R.  (Pa.)  508;  State  v. 
Trinity  Church,  45  New  Jersey  Laws,  230;  Bess,  Pres  III  Crabb  R.  P. 
1481,  Baum  Church  Laws.  The  churches  in  America  having  no  relation 
to  the  state  are  considered  merely  as  voluntary  religious  congregations 
and  are  each  governed  by  rules  of  their  own  and  not  by  the  general  laws 
of  the  state.  But  since  there  must  be  supreme  authority  somewhere  to 
preside  over  all  interests  and  that  authority  must  be  the  state,  it  must 
necessarily  exercise  its  control  sometimes  even  in  matters  pertaining  to 
the  church.  In  such  cases  it  generally  takes  the  laws  and  customs  of  the 
church  as  its  guide,  just  as  between  individuals  it  takes  their  contracts 
and  usages,  and  only  for  want  of  them  resorts  to  the  general  laws  and 
customs  of  the  land.  So  it  must  be  in  relation  to  pews  in  a  church. — 
Mr.  Justice  Lowrie  in  Church  v.  Wells,  supra. 

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^i^tovTS  of  &t.  paur^  episcopal  CJutc^ 

"  It  is  now  one  hundred  years  ago  since  the  cornerstone  of  this 
sacred  edifice  was  laid.  Those  who  took  part  in  the  interesting  and 
solemn  exercises  of  that  day,  have  all  long  since  passed  away.  The 
generation  which  took  their  places  has  followed  them  to  their  last 
resting  place.     But  still  our  '  Hill  of  Zion  '  stands. 

"  This  '  holy  and  beautiful  house  '  in  which  our  fathers  worshipped, 

is  yet  filled  with  living  worshippers.     The  voice  of  prayer  and  praise 

is  still  heard  within  these  hallowed  walls,  and  the 

trumpet    of    the    Gospel    still    gives   the    certain 

sound   here,   which,   for   a   century   past,   it   has 

always  been  wont  to  give. 

"  What  mingling  emotions  crowd  in  upon  the  mind  as  we  stand 
here  this  morning,  and  look  back  in  imagination  over  the  century 
that  has  passed  away.  What  widening  circles  of  influence  for  good 
have  gone  out  from  this  church.  What  solemn  impressions  have 
been  produced  here.  What  good  resolutions  have  been  formed  here. 
What  restraining  power  has  been  exerted  here.  What  seeds  of  quick- 
ing  truth  have  here  been  sowed.  What  doubts  have  here  been  re- 
lieved. What  darkness  has  here  been  dispelled.  What  unbelief  has 
here  been  overcome.  What  rebellious  wills  have  here  been  subdued. 
What  bitter  tears  have  here  been  wiped  away.  What  loads  of  crush- 
ing anguish  have  been  lifted  off.  What  broken  hearts  have  been 
bound  up.  What  comfort  and  consolation  have  been  imparted  to 
God's  tempted  and  sorrowing  children.  What  hungry  souls  have 
been  fed  with  the  bread  which  cometh  down  from  heaven.  What 
thirsty  souls  have  been  here  made  to  drink  of  the  water  of  life 
freely.  What  naked  souls  have  here  been  clothed  with  the  garments 
of  salvation.  In  a  word,  what  multitudes  of  souls  have  been  born 
again,  and  made  meet  for  the  inheritance  of  the  saints  in  light, 

"  And  as  we  dwell  on  these  interesting  circumstances,  may  we  not 
with  propi'iety  take  up  the  language  of  the  text  and  say,  in  refer- 
ences to  the  saving  influences  which  have  emanated  from  this  sanc- 
tuary during  the  century  past,  Out  of  Zion,  the  perfection  of  beauty, 
hath  God  shined." 

Rectors  of  St.  Paul's  Church. 

Rev.  William  McClenachan,  June  22,  1760,  to  October,  1765. 

Rev.   Hugh  Neill,   officiated  December,   1765,   to  December, 

1766. 

Rev.  William  Stringer,  officiated  August,  1768,  to  May,  1773 ; 

Rector  May,  1773,  to  October,  1777. 

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aeirctorgisipis 


Rev.  Samuel  Magaw,  D.D.,  January,  1781,  to  February  15, 

1804. 
Rev.  Joseph  Pilmore,  Assistant,  January,  1786,  to  February, 

1794.     Rector  March,  1804,  to  February  8,  1821. 

Rev.  Benjamin  Allen,  Jr.,  August  27,  1821, 
to  January,  1829. 
Rev.  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  D.D.,  May  4,  1829,  to  October,  1833. 
Rev.  Samuel  A.  McCoskry,  D.D.,  June,  1834,  to  June,  1836. 
Rev.  James  May,  D.D.,  October,  1836,  to  May,  1840. 
Rev.  Richard  Newton,  D.D.,  November,  1840,  to  April  16, 

1862. 
Rev.  Kingston  Goddard,  D.D.,  1862  to  1866. 
Rev.  R.  Heber  Newton,  February  18,  1866,  to  December  9, 

1868. 
Rev.  Robert  T.  Roche,  D.D.,  October  8,  1869,  to  October  1, 

1872. 
Rev.  Samuel  H.  Boyer,  D.D.,  February  4,  1873,  to  1879. 
Rev.  William  Adamson,  1879  to  1886. 
Rev.  Thomas  Kittera  Conrad,  D.D.,  October,  1886,  to  May  28, 

1893. 
Rev.  Charles  Ellis  Stevens,  D.D.,  November  13,  1893,  to  De- 
cember 16,  1894. 
Rev.  William  McGarvey,  D.D.,  June  1,  1897,  to  October  1, 

1898. 


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THE  RECTORSHIP  OF  MR.  McOLENACHAN 
1760-1765 

^^^g^HE  Rev.  William  McClenachan,  son  of  James  Mc- 
/  ^  I  Clenaehan  by  his  wife  Janet  Buchanan,  was  born 
Mil  in  county  Armagh,  Ireland,  about  1710.  In  1734, 
^^^^f  as  a  Presbyterian  clergyman  he  was  settled  at 
Georgetown,  Maine,  and  there  officiated  until 
1744,^  when  he  removed  to  Chelsea,  Massachusetts.  In  1745-6, 
he  was  chaplain  of  General  Waldo's  command  in  the  expedi- 
tion against  Louisburg.^    Becoming  a  member  of  the  Church 

1  Greenleaf  's  ' '  Sketches  of  the  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Maine, ' '  pp. 
75-6;  "Portland  in  the  Past,"  p.  210. 

2  Of  him,  in  this  relation,  the  Boston  Post  Boy  of  Monday,  February 
16,  1746,  says  in  part:  "Boston.  On  the  eighth  instant,  arrived  here 
from  Annapolis  Koyal,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Wm.  McClenachan,  Chaplain  to 
Brigadier  General  Waldo 's  Regiment,  who  contradicts  the  common  report 
we  have  had  in  town  of  the  death  of  several  officers  and  many  of  our 
soldiers  at  Annapolis;  but  informs  us  of  the  death  of  Lieut.  Spencer 
Phipps,  son  of  his  Honor,  our  Lieut.  Governor,  .  .  .  that  all  the  rest  of 
the  officers  belonging  to  Brigadier-General  Waldo's  Regiment  are  alive 
and  well;  and  but  few  of  the  private  soldiers  dead.  That  our  forces 
marched  from  Annapolis  Royal  to  Minas  the  beginning  of  last  December, 
and  were  received  in  the  most  affectionate  manner;  and  that  the  inhabi- 
tants of  that  place  provided  plentifully  for  them.  That  Mons.  Ramzay 
with  a  small  number  of  French  and  Indians,  being  much  affrighted, 
fled  from  Minas  as  soon  as  he  heard  of  the  arrival  of  our  forces  at 
Annapolis.  That  all  our  army  at  Minas  are  healthy,  ....  That  Colonel 
Noble,  who  is  Commander  in  Chief  of  that  detachment,  has  determined 
to  pursue  the  Monsieur,  and  will  doubtless  soon  .  .  .  prevent  his  return 

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Kectot0|)tp  ot  SS^t*  Q^cCItnacfian 


of  England  at  Boston,  he  was,  on  the  recommendation  of  Gov- 
ernor Shirley,  ordained  deacon  and  priest  in  London,  in  1755. 
Appointed  missionary  by  the  venerable  Society  for  the  Propa- 
gation of  the  Gospel,  he  returned  to  Georgetown,  where  he  had 
already  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Captain  Patrick  Drum- 
mond  of  that  place,  by  his  first  wife  Ann  Bell.  She  died  in 
February,  1767.  There  he  remained  from  May,  1756,  to 
December,  1758,  when  he  went  to  a  Mission  in  Virginia,  leav- 
ing his  family  in  New  England.  It  was  on  his  way  back  from 
Virginia  to  remove  his  family  there,  that  he  preached  at 
Christ  Church  and  made  the  impression  which  resulted  in  his 
remaining  in  Philadelphia,  first  as  third  assistant  at  Christ 
Church,  his  salary  being  paid  by  private  subscription,  and 
later  as  rector  of  St.  Paul's. 

His  brother,  Blair  McClenachan,^  already-  a  resident  of 
Philadelphia,  later  became  one  of  the  city's  most  opulent 

to  Canada."  See  also  Collections  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  voL 
vi,  pp.  132-3;  "Fort  Louisburg, "  by  Louis  Barcroft  Eunk,  vol.  iv 
Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  Penna.,  1911,  pp.  1-34. 

3  Blair  McClenachan,  like  Robert  Morris,  was  a  liberal  contributor 
to  the  cause  of  Independence.  In  1780  he  contributed  £10,000  to  the- 
Pennsylvania  Bank,  organized  to  supply  the  starving  army  with  pro- 
visions, and  otherwise  supported  Congress  with  his  means  and  credit. 
One  of  the  founders  of  the  First  Troop  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry,  he 
Crossed  the  Delaware  with  Washington  and  that  organization,  and  was 
with  it  at  Trenton,  Princeton  and  Brandywine.  When  Washington 
came  to  Philadelphia  in  1787  to  attend  the  Federal  Convention,  his 
Diary  tells  that,  on  Sunday,  August  19,  he  "visited  Mr.  Blair  Mc- 
Clenegan,"  who  was  then  residing  at  Cliveden,  the  Chew  House, 
at  Germantown,  which  in  September,  1779,  he  had  purchased  from 
Benjamin  Chew.  He  retained  possession  until  April,  1797,  when  he 
reconveyed  it  to  Judge  Chew.  Towards  the  close  of  the  Revolution  he 
entered  prominently  into  all  the  political  movements  of  the  time.  After- 
the  war,  he  was  still  more  prominent;  was  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Assembly,  1790-1795;  president  of  the  Democratic  Society  in  1794  and! 
member  of  Congress,  1797-1799.  Disastrous  financial  reverses  foUowecJ 
various  speculative  enterprises,  and,  like  Robert  Morris,  he  spent  some 
time  in  the  debtor's  prison.  He  married,  August  17,  1762,  Ana 
Darrach  of  Germantown,  by  whom  he  had:     1.  Deborah  McClenachan, 

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^i^tot^f  ot  &t  paur-ei  (Episcopal  C|^urc|^ 

merchants  and  distinguished  citizens.  He  died  May  8,  1812, 
and  was  buried  in  his  vault  at  St.  Paul's.  It  is  more  than 
possible  that  he  was  a  contributing  cause  to  the  settlement  of 
his  reverend  brother  in  Philadelphia. 

In  his  letter  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  written 
shortly  after  the  formation  of  St.  Paul's,  William  McClen- 
achan  gives  the  story  of  his  life  and  labors  to  the  time  of  writ- 
ing much  more  succinctly  than  could  otherwise  be  done  after 
the  lapse  of  years.     He  says : 

"May  it  Please  your  Grace: 

"  I  here  present  you  with  a  brief  Narrative  of  my  Conduct  and 
Circumstances,  since  I  entered  the  Gospel  Ministry  in  the  Church  of 
England;  with  a  brief  and  honest  Account  of  the  State  of  Religion 
in  the  Plantations,  so  far  as  I  have  been  acquainted  with  it. 


born  June  4,  1763,  married  April  11,  1781,  General  Walter  Stewart, 
•whose  descendants  are  carried  down  to  the  present  time,  through  their 
•child,  Anne,  who  married  Philip  Church  of  New  York.  General  Stew- 
.art  had  the  following  children:  William  Stewart,  born  December  27, 
1781,  was  christened  by  Eev.  Dr.  White.  His  godfathers  were  General 
Washington  and  J.  M.  Nesbitt,  Esq.  His  godmother  was  Mrs.  Hayfield 
•Conyngham.  Lost  at  sea,  summer  of  1808.  Bobert,  born  February  14, 
1784.  Uncle  Adam  Stewart  and  Alexander  Nesbitt,  godfathers.  Miss 
Patty  McClenachan,  godmother.  Christened  by  Rev.  Dr.  White.  Died 
April  1&,  1906,  Canton,  China.  Anne,  born  in  Londonderry,  Ireland, 
July  22,  1786,  married  Philip  Church.  Walter,  born  in  London,  July  6, 
1787;  died  1807,  at  Fort  Alajon,  near  Gibraltar.  Henry,  born  December 
27,  1788.  Christened  by  Eev.  Dr.  White.  Died  1823  in  Mexico.  Mary 
Ann,  their  sixth  child,  born  March  3,  1791.  Christened  by  Rev.  Dr. 
White.  Died  August  25,  1844,  in  Philadelphia.  Caroline,  their  seventh 
child,  was  born  May  5,  1794.  Christened  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  White.  De- 
parted this  life,  December  4,  1795,  of  a  dropsy  on  her  brain.  Was 
interred  in  St.  Paul's  Church  burial  ground,  December  5.  Service  read 
by  Bishop  White.  Washington,  their  eighth  child,  born  August  24, 
1796,  at  2  P.  M.,  two  months  and  ten  days  after  his  father 's  decease,  died 
April,  1826,  at  Coquimbo,  South  America.  The  father  of  the  above 
children  died  of  a  bilious  fever,  June  14,  1796,  and  was  interred  in  St. 
Paul's  Burial  ground,  June  16.  Service  was  read  by  Bishop  White 
(Penna.  Mag.  Hist,  and  Biog.,  vol.  22,  p.  382). 

2.  Martha  MeClenahan,  married  John  HasseU  Huston  and  had  issue,  of 
vhom  Mary  Huston  married  Henry  Toland,  q.  v. 

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Witctot0^ip  ot  9^u  St^cCUnacliatt 


"  In  the  year  1755,  I  went  to  London  for  holy  Orders,  well  recom- 
mended by  [to]  many  Persons  of  Distinction,  among  whom  your 
Lordship  was  one.  I  had  the  Pleasure  of  being  kindly  received,  by 
many  dignified  Clergy  of  our  Church.  I  was  ordained  Deacon  and 
Priest,  in  about  a  Month  after  my  Arrival,  and  was  appointed  an 
itinerant  Missionary  on  the  Eastern  Frontiers  of  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  in  New  England.  The  Spring  Ships  bound  for  [New]  Eng- 
land sailed,  before  I  was  ready  to  take  Passage  in  one  of  them;  by 
which  means  I  was  detained  about  four  Months  in  London.  Un- 
willing to  spend  my  time  idly  and  St.  Ann's  Church  in  Lyme  house, 
wanting  a  Minister,  I  cheerfully  undertook  the  Duty;  and  (blessed 
be  God)  I  labored  not  unsuccessfully.  And  I  was  warmly  invited 
to  continue  there.  But  the  poor  Inhabitants  of  the  Eastern  Fron- 
tiers in  New  England  wanted  me  more,  and  I  thought  had  a  better 
Title  to  me;  for  which  Reason  I  declined  settling  in  that  amiable 
Church,  where  Ease,  Pleasure,  and  Profit  would  have  been  my  Por- 
tion; and  chose  rather,  for  a  Time,  to  preach  the  Gospel  to  the  Poor 
in  the  Wilderness,  where  I  knew  Dangers  and  Difficulties  would 
await  and  surround  me.  During  my  stay  in  London,  I  preached  in 
sixteen  Churches  and  the  Rev'd  Dr.  Beareroft  without  my  Request 
certified  that  my  Behaviour  in  London  was  worthy  the  good  Char- 
acter transmitted  from  New  England. 

"  I  embarked  at  Gravesend  the  8th  of  August,  and  arrived  at 
Boston  the  10th  of  October  following. 

"  I  did  not  think  it  safe  to  move  my  wife  and  Eight  Children,  on 
the  Eve  of  Winter,  to  the  Wilderness,  especially  as  there  was 
no  Place  prepared  by  the  People  for  my  Reception.  I  therefore 
brought  my  family  to  Boston  and  wintered  there.  During  this 
Time,  I  was  not  forgetful,  nor  negligent  of  my  Duty  as  a  Clergy- 
man of  the  Church  of  England;  I  preached  at  Stoughton,  Needham, 
Watertown  and  Woburn.  These  Places  enjoyed  not  the  public  Wor- 
ship of  God  according  to  our  Liturgy;  I  hope  my  Labours  were  not 
entirely  lost  in  those  Places.  I  was  the  first  Church  of  England 
Clergyman  that  had  ever  preached  in  Watertown ;  and  without  Van- 
ity, I  may  say,  that  I  was  the  Instrument  of  opening  up  to  the 
People  there  the  Excellency  of  our  Church  Service  and  bringing  them 
to  be  Members  of  the  Church  of  England.  I  laid  the  Foundation; 
may  God  enable  the  Gentleman  that  is  now  settled  there  faithfully 
and  successfully  to  do  his  Duty. 

"As  early  as  I  could  with  Safety,  I  embarked  for  Kennebec; 
where  I  was  kindly  received  by  the  poor  Inhabitants;  and  to  their 
Service  I  entirely  devoted  myself.     I  preached  twice  every  Sunday, 

69 


and  frequently  on  Week  Days.  I  travelled  among  the  People,  visit- 
ing them  and  baptizing  their  Children,  and  doing  them  every  good 
Office  in  my  Power.  The  War  with  the  French  and  Indians  becom- 
ing very  hot,  I  lived  in  an  old  dismantled  Fort  without  Arms,  Am- 
munition or  Soldiers;  and  there  was  not  an  English  Inhabitant  on 
the  Western  Side  of  Kennebeck  River  between  me  and  Quebec.^* 

"  In  this  Dangerous  Situation  I  continued,  travelling  not  less  than 
1000  or  1200  Miles  eveiy  Year  in  the  Discharge  of  my  sacred  Func- 
tion. I  was  allowed  £50  Stirling  annually  from  the  Society:  A 
great  Part  of  this  Sum  I  was  obliged  to  spend  in  maintaining  the 
Men  who  rowed  me  from  Place  to  Place;  the  Remainder  was  in  no 
Ways  sufficient  [to]  support  my  Family.  I  frequently  wrote  to' the 
Rev.d  Dr.  Bearcroft,  and  begged  that  my  difficult  and  dangerous 
Circumstances  might  be  laid  before  the  Society.  I  received  several 
Letters  from  the  Doctor,  but  no  encouragement  of  being  appointed 
to  any  other  Place.  At  length,  almost  worn  out  with  Fatigue,  and 
myself  and  Family  being  daily  in  Jeopardy  of  being  killed  or  capti- 
vated by  the  cruel  Enemy,  I  resolved  to  take  a  Tour  to  the  South- 
ward, and  see  what  Providence  would  do  for  me.  I  took  a  Passage 
to  Virginia  and  there  being  many  vacant  Parishes,  I  was  soon 
apiDointed  to  one,  where  I  performed  I  believe  to  the  Satisfac- 
tion of  the  People.  I  found  I  might  be  provided  for  in  that  Colony, 
and  had  a  Prospect  of  doing  Service;  and  therefore  thought  it  my 
duty  to  hasten  to  the  northward,  to  deliver  my  Family  from  the 
Danger  of  the  Common  Enemy.  I  must  here  beg  Leave  to  inform 
your  Grace  that  I  received  no  Sum  of  Money  from  the  Church  where 
I  preached,  to  enable  me  to  bring  my  Family  to  that  Part,  nor  even 
Pay  for  the  Time  I  served  them  in  the  Sacred  Office.  .  .  . 

"  On  my  Journey  to  New  England,  I  arrived  at  the  oppulent  City 
of  Philadelphia,  where  I  paid  my  Compliments  to  the  Rev'd  Dr. 
Jenney,  Minister  of  Chi-ist  Church  in  that  City,  and  to  the  Rev'd  Mr, 
Sturgeon,  Catechist  to  the  Negroes.  The  Doctor  for  a  long  Time 
has  been  incapable  of  doing  Duty  in  the  Church;  and  at  that  Time 
Mr.  Sturgeon  happened  to  be  indisposed  and  incapable  of  doing 
Duty.     I  was  invited  by  the  Doctor  and  Mr.   Sturgeon  to  preach. 


3a  In  1756,  et  seq.,  Samuel  Goodwin  commanded  a  militia  force  on  the 
Kennebec.  His  Journal  of  that  year  mentions  the  detaching  of  a  guard, 
in  October,  to  accompany  Mr.  McClenachan  on  various  of  his  preaching 
tours  to  Georgetown,  Eichmond  and  elsewhere  on  the  Kennebec.  Also 
an  accident  to  his  eldest  son  John  McClenachan,  in  the  Exeter  Eiver, 
which  resulted  in  his  death.  Collections  of  Maine  Historical  Society, 
vol.  24,  p.  66,  etc. 

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and  I  accordingly  preached  fore  and  Afternoon,  for  which  I  re- 
ceived the  Thanks  of  these  Gentlemen.  I  intended  the  Tuesday  fol- 
lowing to  have  pushed  on  my  Journey  but  was  persuaded  to  spend 
another  Sunday  with  them.  According  I  preached  fore  and  After- 
noon again,  and  Mr,  Sturgeon  read  Prayers.  On  Monday  several 
of  the  Congregation  paid  me  a  Visit,  and  expressed  their  very  warm 
Desires,  that  I  should  continue  for  some  Time  to  preach  and  per- 
form the  other  Duties  of  my  Function,  on  Probation,  with  a  View  to 
settle  with  them;  to  which  I  consented,  and  proceeded  according 
to  an  Act  of  Vestry  in  my  Favour.  The  19th  of  June  the  Vestry 
again  met,  and  with  the  Advice  of  the  Congregation  elected,  settled, 
established  and  confirmed  me  an  Assistant  Minister  to  the  Rev'd  Dr. 
Jenney,  and  voted  to  address  his  Lordship  the  Bishop  of  London  for 
his  Licence  to  me  to  this  Church,  so  being  I  produced  good  Testi- 
monials of  my  moral  and  religious  Life  in  the  Places  where  I  had 
lived.  I  produced  ample  Testimonials  of  my  Christian  Behaviour 
from  the  People  among  whom  I  had  laboured  in  the  Society's 
Service,  and  from  many  Gentlemen  of  Distinction,  both  of  the 
Church  and  Presbyterians,  who  had  been  acquainted  with  me  for 
many  Years.  These  Credentials  I  laid  before  the  Vestry,  who 
unanimously  approved  of  them,  and  accordingly  wrote  a  Letter  to 
the  Bishop  of  London  for  me.  I  likewise  wrote  a  letter  to  his  Lord- 
ship, and  to  Dr.  Bearcroft,  and  I  doubted  not  of  being  favoured  with 
a  Licence.  But  alas!  While  I  thought  all  was  well  and  had  no  mis- 
trust of  any  Plot  or  Design  against  me,  then  were  the  crafty  em- 
ployed, in  contriving  Means  to  dissuade  his  Lordship  from  sending 
me  his  License.  .  .  .  The  good  Bishop  had  not  thought  proper  to 
answer  the  honest  Letter  sent  to  him  by  the  honest  Vestry  regularly 
assembled,  nor  to  my  Letter'.  .  .  .  However,  the  one  Party  is  fa- 
voured, and  their  Request  granted,  and  the  other  despised  and  con- 
demned without  a  hearing.  His  Lordship's  Letter  discharges  all 
People  from  giving  any  Encouragement  to  me  to  live  in  any  Part 
of  this  Province,  and  charges  them  to  assist  in  moving  me  to  Vir- 
ginia. But  before  this  extraordinary  Letter  arrived,  Dr.  Jenney, 
and  a  Majority  of  his  Vestry,  assembled,  in  three  Hours  from  the 
Time  the  Warning  was  given  and  dismissed  me;  declaring  that  they 
were  well  assured  that  his  Lordship's  Letter  would  be  to  the  same 
Purpose.  .  .  . 

"  One  door  has  been  shut  against  me ;  God  has  opened  another. 
I  was  dismissed  by  the  Doctor  and  Vestry,  in  Manner  aforesaid,  on 
Wednesday;  the  Bishop's  Letter  arrived  the  Saturday  following; 
and  I  read  Prayers  and  preached  at  the  State-House  on  Sunday,  to 

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^i0tot^  of  &t  paurgi  (Bpi0topal  C8urc5 

above,  perhaps  Five  Thousand  Hearers.  The  Benefit  of  assembling, 
in  this  spacious  Building,  for  the  public  Worship  of  God,  we  shall 
enjoy,  till  the  Church  be  built,  which  will  be  with  all  possible 
Expedition. 

"  For  this  Blow  at  Christian  Liberty  makes  all  good  Men  Pity 
and  help  us.  This  alas!  will  render  Prelacy  contemptible  in  this 
Part  of  the  World.  For  a  free  People  will  ever  esteem  it  their  Privi- 
lege, to  choose  their  own  Minister;  a  Right,  which  they  in  the  Plan- 
tations will  not  care  to  give  up.  Let  not  my  Lord  imagine,  that  I 
write  thus  through  disregard  to  our  Church.  God  forbid.  I  am 
grieved  at  my  very  Soul,  that  our  holy  Church,  by  such  unwarrant- 
able Procedure,  is  thus  wounded.  Let  none  imagine,  that  we  are 
about  to  erect  a  Church  separate  from  the  Church  of  England. 
No;  we  shall  strictly  adhere  to  her  Liturgy,  Doctrines  and  Discipline. 

"  Thus  I  have  informed  your  Grace  of  my  Conduct  and  Circum- 
stances from  my  entering  into  the  sacerdotal  Office  of  this  Day. 

"  Your  Grace  fills  the  highest  Office  in  the  Christian  Church,  and 
you  are  able  and  likely  to  do  the  most  good.  I  have  no  View  but 
the  Enlargement  of  my  Lord  and  Master's  Kingdom;  this,  by  his 
Grace,  I  shall  labor. 

"  My  highest  Ambition  is  and  ever  shall  be,  to  win  Souls  to 
Christ,  I  therefore  seek  Refuge  and  Protection  in  your  Grace,  from 
that  Contempt  and  Rage  to  which  I  am  exposed,  and  which  I  have 
nndergone,  for  preaching  faithfully  the  Doctrines  of  our  holy 
Church.  ...  "  Your  Grace's  dutiful  Son 

"  and  most  obedient  Servant, 

"  Wm.  Macclanechan." 

So  began  his  charge  of  St.  Paul's,  which,  after  five  years 
of  service,  he  resigned  because  of  failing  health,  doubtless 
engendered  by  the  hardship  of  his  missionary  life  on  the 
Kennebec.  He  removed  to  Worcester  County,  Maryland,  in 
1765,  and  was  the  rector  of  St.  Martin's  Church  until  his  death 
in  1766.  He  had  several  children,  who  became  the  progeni- 
tors of  many  well-known  Philadelphians,  some  of  whom  are 
recorded  in  Keith's  Provincial  Councillors.* 

4  His  daughter  Isabella,  born  June,  1746;  died  August  20,  1815,  mar- 
ried August  20,  1766,  Thomas  Robins,  only  child  of  Thomas  and  Leah 
(Whalley)  Robins,  who  was  born  at  South  Point,  Worcester  County,  Mary- 

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Like  Whitefield,  whom  Lord  Chesterfield  pronounced  the 
most  eloquent  man  he  had  ever  heard,  he  was  preeminently  a 
preacher,  and  St.  Paul 's  was  a  sympathetic  congregation.  He 
always  preached  three  times  on  the  Lord 's  day.  He  favored  a 
strict  interpretation  of  the  doctrines  of  the  Thirty-Nine  Ar- 
ticles ;  insisted  that  the  surplice  should  not  be  worn  at  the  com- 
munion table,  and,  according  to  Dr.  Johnson,  President  of  King's 
College,  *  *  affects  to  act  a  part  like  Whitefield, ' '  which  in  the  lan- 
guage of  today  means  no  more  than  that  he  was  of  the  low 
church  party.  Earnest,  eloquent,  learned,  simple  and  direct, 
an  animating  spirit  without  a  trace  of  animosity,  he  was  also 
a  man  of  singular  courage  as  is  to  be  learned  from  Governor 
Shirley's  recommendation.  He  was  never  charged  as  some 
*  *  Churchmen  were  with  being  cold  when  their  neighbors  were 
at  a  white  heat,  or  as  the  exponent  of  the  hard  and  narrow 
churchmanship  of  the  Tory  School."  He  realized  that  in- 
fidelity prevailed  and  Christianity  was  reduced  to  its  lowest 
level,  and  he  did  his  utmost  to  counteract  these  conditions  in 
that  broader  spirit  which  made  it  a  direct  appeal  and  more 
human.  He  preached  faith  in  God,  hope  in  his  salvation  and 
charity  to  all  mankind.  His  faith  was  Catholic,  his  preaching 
evangelistic,  his  practice  not  far  removed  from  that  of  Wil- 
liam White,  the  revered  first  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania,  whose 
attention  to  the  ministry  was,  it  is  asserted,  the  result  of  a 
sermon  of  Mr.  Whitefield 's. 

As  illustrative  of  the  churchmanship  of  that  time  the  words 
of  Bishop  Stevens  in  his  memorial  sermon  **Then  and  Now," 

land,  January  8,  1740.  Their  son,  Edward  Kobins,  the  great-grand- 
father of  Edward  Robins,  of  Philadelphia,  a  councillor  of  the  Historical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania  and  secretary  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
born  at  South  Point,  December  23,  1769,  was  a  member  of  the  Maryland 
Legislature  and  died  August  23,  1867,  leaving,  among  others,  a  son, 
Thomas  Eobins,  who  was  president  of  the  Philadelphia  National  Bank 
and  one  of  the  founders  of  St.  Andrew's  Episcopal  Church,  on  Eighth 
Street  above  Spruce  Street. 

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delivered   in    Christ    Church    on   the   centennial   of   Bishop 
White's  ordination  to  the  diaconate,  are  most  pertinent. 

"Bishop  White  never  bowed  at  the  name  of  Jesus  in  the  ci'eed, 
and  even  wrote  two  articles  in  defence  of  his  not  doing  so.  .  .  . 
He  never  turned  to  the  east  to  say  the  creed  or  the  Gloria  Patri. 
He  never  preached  in  a  surplice,  but  always  when  not  engaged  in 
Episcopal  duties  was  in  the  black  gown.  He  never  required  the 
people  to  rise  up  as  he  entered  the  church  and  at  the  close  of  the 
service  to  remain  standing  in  their  pews  until  he  left  the  chancel. 
He  never  asked  the  congregation  to  stand  up  while  he  placed  the 
alms-basins,  with  the  offertory  on  the  Lord's  table,  or  notified  the 
communicants  to  continue  in  their  places,  after  the  benediction, 
until  the  clergy  had  reverently  ate  and  drank  what  remained  of  the 
consecrated  bread  and  wine.  ...  He  magnified  his  office,  not  by 
arrogant  claims  or  by  extolling  unduly  its  sacred  functions,  but  by  a 
loving  discharge  of  its  duties  under  the  eye  of  God,  in  the  humility 
of  a  servant  and  with  the  fidelity  of  an  Apostle." 

In  this  manner  was  the  service  performed  at  St.  Paul's 
during  Mr.  McClenachan's  incumbency  and  as  late  as  1886. 
Dr.  McConnell  says,  ''The  Church's  theory  was  catholic,  her 
methods  were  denominational."  The  older  people  at  St. 
Paul 's  did  not  bow  in  the  creed  and  the  black  gown  of  Geneva 
was  always  worn  in  the  pulpit.^  The  altar  was  called  the 
communion  table.  Its  communicants  were  strenuously  op- 
posed to  "an  advanced  ritual,"  or  what  was  called  ''high 
church  practices"  and  adhered  strictly  to  simplicity  of  faith 
and  practice.  The  Kev.  Richard  Newton,  one  of  St.  Paul's 
most  eminent  rectors,  said:  "What  are  ordinarily  known  as 
evangelical  truths  or  the  doctrines  of  grace,  are  those  which 
have  always  been  preached  here.  This  pulpit  has  ever  pro- 
claimed man's  utterly  ruined  and  helpless  condition  by 
nature ;  the  absolute  necessity  of  the  conversion,  or  new  birth 
of  each  individual  soul  in  order  to  its  salvation;  God's  Holy 

5  The  Churchman,  vol.  vi,  p.  1046.  John 's  ' '  Life  of  Bishop  Meade, ' ' 
pp.  240-1. 

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Spirit  as  the  agent,  and  the  truth  of  His  revealed  "Word,  and 
not  the  Sacraments  of  the  Church,  as  the  chief  instrument, 
divinely  appointed  for  effecting  this  great  change;  an  open 
Bible  alone  as  man's  all  sufficient  guide  in  reference  to  spiri- 
tual things,  the  right  of  private  judgment  in  the  interpreta- 
tion of  Scripture  'So  that  whatsoever  is  not  read  therein,  nor 
be  proved  thereby,  is  not  to  be  required  of  any  man,  that  it 
should  be  believed  as  an  article  of  faith,  or  be  thought  neces- 
sary to  salvation  by  whomsoever  the  same  may  be  authorized 
and  enjoined;  the  entire  freeness  of  the  Gospel,  and  the  full, 
perfect  and  sufficient  efficacy  of  the  sacrifice  of  Christ  for  the 
sins  of  the  whole  world;  and  yet  the  absolute  sovereignty  of 
God  in  the  dispensing  of  his  grace  to  men,  so  that  salvation  in 
its  ultimate  attainment  is  not  of  him  that  willeth,  nor  of  him 
that  winneth,  but  of  God  who  sheweth  mercy;'  these  have 
been  the  type  of  doctrine  always  preached  in  this  church." 

The  vacancy  created  by  Mr.  McClenachan  was  not  easy  to 
fill.  By  a  resolution  of  the  vestry  of  October  6,  1762,  the 
Rev.  William  Romaine,  author  of  ''The  Life,  Walk  and 
Triumph  of  Faith,"  was  appointed  assistant  minister.  He 
was  recommended  by  the  Rev.  George  Whitefield  for  the 
vacancy  that  had  now  occurred,  but  Mr.  Romaine  had  just 
entered  upon  his  duties  at  St.  Ann's  Blackfriars,  London, 
when  the  call  reached  him  and  he  declined  it  because  of  that 
fact. 

There  were  but  few  clergy  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in 
America,  and  these  had  been  duly  licensed  to  the  various  ap- 
pointments they  then  held.  The  Stamp  Act  and  the  Quarter- 
ing Act  had  brought  strained  relations  to  the  Mother  Country 
and  her  Colonies.  The  political  opposition  engendered  by 
the  former  had  infused  itself  into  the  Church,  which  its 
fourth  convention  held  at  Shrewsbury,  New  Jersey,  in  1765, 
served  to  emphasize,  since  if  it  did  not  declare  for  an  Amer- 

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ican  Church,  at  least  considered  the  advisability  of  such  es- 
tablishment. St.  Paul's  attitude  was  independent.  Mr.  Mc- 
Clenachan  had  not  been  licensed  by  the  Bishop  of  London, 
nor  endorsed  by  the  Metropolitan.  Its  articles  of  agreement 
delegated  the  choice  of  his  successors  to  the  ballot  of  the  con- 
gregation, and  it  strove  to  hold  fast  to  the  right  of  presenta- 
tion. On  these  points,  the  letters  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  "William 
Smith  to  the  Bishop  of  London  are  enlightening.  Under  date 
of  November  13,  1766,  he  says: 

"  Mr.  Maeclenachan's  or  St.  Paul's  Congregation  in  this  City  I 
believe  will  now  at  last  write  to  your  Lordship.  ...  I  know  they 
will  make  strong  professions  of  their  attachment  to  the  Church  as 
they  do  to  us  here.  They  will  complain  that  the  Missionaries  (who 
indeed  are  but  thin  here  and  have  Business  enough  of  their  own) 
do  not  supply  them.  But  while  their  conduct  contradicts  their 
professions,  while  they  look  only  to  Mr.  Whitefield  to  send  them  a 
Minister  and  want  our  Clergy  to  be  Convenient  Instruments  to  keep 
them  together  till  they  can  have  a  Minister  of  this  stamp  to  divide 
and  tear  us  to  pieces,  I  cannot  think  we  owe  them  any  Service. 
They  will  even  profess  to  your  Lordship  that  they  will  have  no 
Minister  without  your  License;  but  they  will  try  their  Minister 
first  and  if  they  like  him  then  they  will  ask  a  Licence.  If  your 
Lordship  gives  it  all  will  be  well;  if  you  refuse  it  for  reasons  they 
do  not  think  sufficient  what  will  they  do  then'?  I  have  asked  them 
the  question  and  they  say,  would  not  give  their  man  up,  which  was 
the  case  with  Mr.  Macelenachan  whom  they  kept  tho'  refused  a 
Licence.  .  .  . 

"I  think  after  all  they  will  not  ask  your  Lordship  to  provide  a 
minister  for  them  but  will  still  look  to  the  old  Quarter  tho'  I  hope 
I  may  be  deceived  and  shall  be  glad  to  find  it  so.  They  are  now 
neither  numerous  nor  of  much  Note  but  are  still  worthy  to  be 
brought  into  the  Bosom  of  our  Church  if  it  can  be  done.  Those 
among  them  who  were  true  Churchmen  have  generally  fallen  off. 
The  rest  are  a  mixt  sort  chiefly  for  an  independent  Church  of  Eng- 
land— a  strange  sort  of  Church  indeed!  But  the  Notion  gains  too 
much  Ground  here  even  among  the  Clergy.     I  believe  your  Lordship 


6  For  account  of,  see  * '  Life  and  Correspondence  of  Eev.  William 
Smith,  D.D.,  First  Provost  of  the  College  of  Philadelphia,"  vol.  i,  pp. 
384-389. 

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REV.    WILLIAM    SMITH,    D.D. 

BORN  IN  SCOTLAND,   1727;    DIED  IN   PHILADELPHIA,   1803, 
AN  ASSISTANT  MINISTER  OF  CHRIST  CHURCH,  PHILADELPHIA. 


Witttot^'^ip  ot  9^u  9i^c€ltnu^&n 


will  perceive  something  of  this  kind  not  altogether  pleasing  if  the 
resolves  of  a  majority  of  the  last  Jersey  Convention^  should  come 
before  you  against  Commissaries  &c.  .  .  .  Mr.  Peters  attended  and 
bore  his  testimony  against  these  Resolves  .  .  .  and  perhaps  he  may 
give  some  account  of  the  matter  to  your  Lordship.  He  was  milder, 
I  believe,  than  I  should  have  been.  .  .  ." 

Dr.  Smith  in  his  letter  of  December  18,  1766,  also  to  the 
Bishop  of  London,  continues : 

"  Your  Lordship  will  give  me  the  leave  in  all  humble  Duty  to  men- 
tion an  affair  by  which  our  Church  I  fear  will  suffer  a  little  in  the 
sight  of  her  adversaries  here.  One  William  Dunlap  a  printer  in 
this  place  having  also  a  printing  press  in  Barbadoes  having  gone  to 
that  Island  after  his  business  applied  here  for  recommendations  for 
orders  which  we  would  not  give,  as  he  had  no  education  but  reading 
and  writing  as  well  as  for  other  reasons.  He  did  however  it  seems 
procure  Letters  from  some  Clergy  in  Barbadoes,  tho'  they  could  not 
have  known  him  above  a  year.  No  doubt  they  thought  and  your 
Lordship  thought  that  in  the  remote  and  new  settled  Island  a  pious 
man  without  the  learned  languages,  &c.,  might  be  useful  and  with 
that  view  we  hear  your  lordship  received  him.  Had  he  staid  there  in 
the  West  Indies  it  might  have  been  all  well.  But  he  is  now  in  Phila- 
delphia preaching  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  and  in  a  place  where  Pres- 
byterian preachers  have  all  some  learning,  where  the  laity  too  have 
learning  and  where  some  things  are  remembered  to  his  disadvantage 
particularly  the  affair  of  a  Lottery  which  a  few  years  ago  he  had 
and  was  like  to  have  been  brought  into  law  trouble  about  it.  His 
printing  Press  too  he  still  carries  on  and  it  is  seldom  a  '  prophet 
has  honor  in  his  own  country.' 

"  The  man  always  appeared  to  me  a  simple  inoffensive  man  whom 
I  never  could  have  thought  of  recommending  for  Orders  tho  I  knew 
no  harm  of  him  only  I  wish  he  had  not  come  here. 

"  I  mentioned  St.  Paul's  Congregation  in  my  last.  No  doubt  your 
Lordship  has  received  their  letters.  A  few  days  ago  Mr.  Whitefield 
sent  them  a  letter  telling  them  that  he  had  prevailed  on  a  clergyman 
(they  say  Mr.  Chapman  of  Bath  and  Bradford)  to  come  to  them. 
Surely  he  will  wait  on  your  Lordship  tho  some  here  say  not.  I  have 
some  acquaintance  with  him.  Mr.  Evans  after  preaching  twice  to 
them  declined  any  further  Service  and  is  properly  applied  to  the 
business  of  his  own  Mission.  I  have  yet  little  expectation  of  the 
Regularity  from  that  Congregation  but  I  hope  I  may  be  deceived. 

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i^i^tor?  of  &t.  paurssi  episicopal  C^ucclj 

"  Youi'  Lordship's  goodness  will  excuse  the  freedom  I  have  men- 
tioned Mr.  Dunlap's  affair  as  it  is  only  to  yourself  thinking  it  my 
duty  to  do  it,  because  if  any  other  persons  should  come  without  Tes- 
timonials from  the  place  where  they  properly  reside  and  are  known, 
care  may  be  taken  to  inquire  concerning  them.  I  need  not  mention 
that  I  would  not  have  any  public  notice  taken  of  the  hints  I  have 
given  for  Mr.  Dunlap  was  bred  under  Mr.  Franklin  now  in  Eng- 
land, in  his  Printing  Office,  and  married  som«}  relation  of  his  and  his 
knowledge  of  our  writing  anything  now  might  only  make  differences. 
I  hope  prejudice  will  wear  off  and  Mr.  Dunlap  be  useful  in  some 
place  tho  not  in  this  town. 

"  I  am,  your  Lordship's  most  dutiful  son  and  servant, 

"  Wm.  Smith."^ 

This  letter  prevented  Dunlap  being  rector  of  St.  Paul's. 
In  1768,  he  became  rector  of  Stratton  in  King  and  Queen 
County,  Virginia,* 

7  Perry,  vol.  ii,  pp.  411-5. 

8  William  Dunlap,  a  native  of  Ireland,  began  printing  at  Lancaster  in 
1754,  but  returned  to  Philadelphia  in  1757,  -where,  at  the  "Newest- 
Printing-Office,  on  the  South  side  of  the  Jersey  Market,"  he  did  con- 
siderable business  as  a  printer,  bookseller  and  stationer.  Having  en- 
gaged in  the  study  of  divinity  he  went  to  London  and  obtained  ordina- 
tion in  the  Church  of  England.  In  1767  he  returned  to  America,  becom- 
ing, in  the  following  year,  rector  of  Major  Stratton,  in  King  and  Queen's 
County,  Virginia.  He  printed  John  Jerman's  Almanac  in  1757,  and 
began  the  publication  of  Father  Abraham's  Almanack.  When  settled 
in  Virginia,  he  sold  his  printing  business  to  his  nephew,  John  Dun- 
lap, afterwards  fifth  captain  of  the  First  Troop  Philadelphia  City 
Cavalry,  who,  in  1771,  began  the  publication  of  The  Pennsylvania  Packet 
or  General  Advertiser.  In  1784,  the  Pacl'et  was  issued  as  a  daily  paper, 
it  being  the  first  daily  newspaper  in  the  United  States.  The  North 
American  is  the  successor  of  Mr.  Dunlap  's  paper.  As  the  public  printer, 
authorized  by  Congress,  he  had  the  distinction  of  printing  and  publishing 
for  general  distribution  the  Declaration  of  Independence  as  well  as 
Continental  currency.  Thomas'  "History  of  Printing  in  America," 
1874,  pp.  252,  258,  259.  "History  of  Friendly  Sons  of  St.  Patrick," 
1892,  p.  109.  Also  see  Vol.  10,  Penna.  Magaine  of  Hist.  &  Biog.,  pp. 
86-217,  322-462 ;  vol.  II,  98^223,  346-482. 


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1765-1766 

3N  consequence  of  the  conditions  which  followed  Mr. 
McClenachan's  departure,  some  years  intervened 
before  St.  Paul's  had  a  settled  rector.  Mr,  Neill 
officiated  as  early  as  December,  1765,  and  from 
that  time  irregularly  until  his  departure,  in  Oc- 
tober, 1766,  to  the  well-established  parish  of  St.  Paul's,  Queen 
Anne  County,  Maryland. 

As  missionary  of  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the 
Gospel  he  was  at  Christ  Church,  Dover,  Delaware,  in  1745, 
where  he  remained  until  1759,  beginning  his  connection  with 
Trinity,  Oxford,  the  following  year.  The  loss  of  his  glebe- 
house,  by  fire,  caused  his  temporary  residence  at  German- 
town,  from  which  he  wrote  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Society, 
May  12,  1760 : 

"  Very  Rev^  and  D*"  Sir 

"  It  is  with  the  greatest  pleasure  I  can  inform  you  that  the  Con- 
gregation of  Oxford,  thro'  the  blessing  of  God  is  in  a  growing  Con- 
dition; .  .  .  We  had  20  Communicants  last  Easter;  the  oldest  livers 
in  the  place  tell  me  they  dont  remember  such  a  number  to  have  taken 
the  Sacrament  there  before.  I  wish  I  could  say  the  same  of  White- 
marsh.  The  Communicants  there  were  but  six  altho'  the  Church  is 
crowded  there  every  Sunday  yet  they  are  chiefly  of  other  persuasions, 
the  Church  people  being  but  few  in  those  parts.  I,  have  an  invita- 
tion from  some  of  the  English  people  in  German  Town  to  preach 

79 


for  them  as  there  is  no  kind  of  English  Worship  in  the  Town  except 
a  Quaker  meeting  house;  and,  indeed,  this  is  something  extraordinary, 
as  I  don't  know  a  family  of  the  Church  of  England  in  Town  but  one, 
altho'  it  contains  300  houses,  but  as  they  are  divided  into  so  many 
Sects,  that  no  single  sect  is  able  to  support  a  Minister,  I  mean  the 
English  people  and  as  I  have  offered  to  preach  for  them  for  nothing 
Sunday  Evenings  after  Service  is  over  of  my  other  Churches,  they 
readily  embraced  the  offer.  The  loan  of  the  Lutheran  Church  of  the 
upper  end  of  German  Town  and  of  the  Calvinist  Church  in  the 
Middle  of  the  Town  are  both  offered  to  me  by  their  respective  Minis- 
ters and  people,  as  they  appear  more  willing  to  have  a  Minister 
of  the  Church  of  England  to  preach  to  their  people  that  understand 
English  (as  most  of  the  young  people  do)  than  any  other  denomi- 
nation."^ 

On  June  8,  1761,  he  adds:  "I  officiated  the  chief  part  of 
last  Summer  Sunday  Evenings  in  German  Town,  where  the 
rising  generation  of  the  Dutch,  that  understand  English  are 
well  affected  to  the  Church  of  England.  Dr.  Smith  and  my- 
self had  agreed  for  a  Lot,  about  an  acre,  for  £75,  to  build  an 
English  Church  and  make  a  Grave  Yard  for  we  found  the 
Dutch  Clergy  here  were  not  fond  of  letting  me  officiate  in  their 
Churches,  I  suppose  imagining  their  people  would  fall  away 
from  them  and  join  with  the  English;  but  we  are  obliged  to 
drop  the  scheme  for  the  present  till  a  more  favorable  time  on 
account  of  the  prejudice  of  the  people  against  Dr.  Smith  for 
his  disputes  in  politics  formerly  who  would  not  subscribe,  be- 
cause they  said  he  had  a  hand  in  it.  "^ 

Mr.  Neill's  letter  of  December  14,  1765,  written  from  Ox- 
ford and  addressed  to  the  Secretary,^  bears  directly  on  the 
beginning  of  his  association  with  St.  Paul 's.     In  it  he  says : 

''Revd.  Sir, 

"  After  maturely  considering  the  consequence  of  their  invitation 
that  a  door  appeared  to  be  now  opened  for  healing  the  breaches  in 


1  Perry,  vol.  ii,  pp.  286-8. 

2  Ibid.,  p.  327. 

3  Ibid.,  p.  399. 


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that  Church,  and  that  such  a  respectable  body  of  Christians  who  are 
very  numerous  and  declare  themselves  members  of  the  Church  of 
England  should  not  be  neglected,  I  concluded  upon  the  whole  that  it  was 
my  duty  to  comply  with  the  invitation  as  far  as  consistent  with  the 
duty  I  owed  to  my  own  people.  I  put  my  resolution  into  execution, 
I  consulted  my  own  congregation,  and  having  called  a  vestry  [meet- 
ing], a  committee  from  the  vestiy  of  St.  Paul's  attended  and  re- 
quested it  as  a  favor  from  my  vestry  in  the  name  of  the  congrega- 
tion of  St.  Paul's  that  I  might  be  permitted  to  supply  them  at  least 
once  a  month  and  sometimes  in  the  afternoon  when  I  preached  at 
Oxford.  My  vestry  in  consideration  of  their  own  inability  to  con- 
tribute hardly  anything  these  hard  times  to  my  support,  and  the 
vestry  of  St.  Paul's,  offering  to  make  me  grateful  acknowledgments 
agreed  to  their  request. 

"  I  have  since  attended  according  to  the  agreement,*  and  must  truly 
say  the  people  of  St.  Paul's  behave  with  as  much  decency  and  good 
order  throughout  all  parts  of  the  service  as  in  any  other  church  I 
have  seen."^ 

Once  again,  Mr.  Neill  addresses  the  Secretary  of  the  Ven- 
erable Society  in  relation  to  St.  Paul's.  This  letter  is  dated 
Queen's  Town  [Maryland],  June  9,  1767: 

^'Revd.  Sir, 

"I  have  the  pleasure  of  receiving  two  letters  from  you;  the  first 
concerning  St.  Paul's  Church  in  Philadelphia;  the  second  about  my 
unfortunate  nephew,  with  a  donation  of  Ten  Pounds  from  the  Society 
for  which  I  beg  leave  to  return  them  my  most  hearty  thanks.  Not- 
withstanding there  is  seldom  any  provision  made  in  Europe  for  an 
American  Missionary  yet  I  make  no  doubt  the  Society  will  be  well 
pleased  to  hear  that  ample  provision  is  made  for  any  of  their  old 
Servants  in  this  country.  I  have  had  the  satisfaction  to  acquaint 
them  that  Governor  Sharp  has  been  kind  enough  to  grant  me  an 
Induction  appointing  me  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Parish,  Queen  Ann's 
County  Maryland,  A  living  worth  three  hundred  pounds  per  annum 
currency  which  is  about  two  hundred  per  annum  Sterling,  and  as  I 


*  The  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  in  a  letter  to  Eev.  Dr.  William  Smith 
of  August  2,  1766,  says :  ' '  Mr.  Neill  hath  been  directed  not  to  give  hia 
assistance  any  longer  to  Mr.  Macclenathan 's  Congregation,  as  they  have 
made  no  application  to  the  Bishop  of  London." 

0  Perry,  vol.  ii,  p.  399. 
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^i0totv  ot  ^t  paursi  episcopal  CJutc^ 

have  acquired  here  a  considerable  landed  Estate  I  hope  to  be  able  to 
make  the  Society  ample  amends  for  all  past  favors. 

"  As  to  my  ofiieiating  in  St.  Paul's  Church  in  Philadelphia  I  have 
made  bold  to  vindicate  my  conduct  to  his  Grace  of  Canterbury  and 
shall  only  add  that  the  prohibitation  of  me  and  of  me  in  particular 
has  made  more  noise  and  given  a  deeper  wound  than  possibly  you 
can  Imagine  to  the  Church.  My  license  from  my  Lord  Bishop  of 
London  gave  me  power  to  preach  the  Gospel  in  Pennsylvania.  I 
made  no  Schism  by  preaching  to  Churches  that  were  unprovided  for. 
All  that  I  have  done  is  that  I  have  preached  the  Gospel  to  a  vacant 
Church  at  the  earnest  solicitation  of  the  Vestry,  with  the  approba- 
tion of  my  own  people  and  when  it  did  not  interfere  with  the  duties 
of  my  Mission.  If  this  is  criminal  it  is  what  I  never  knew  before. 
I  am  sure  I  have  read  my  Bible  and  all  the  Cannons  and  Constitu- 
tions of  the  Church  of  England  together  with  all  her  laws  civil  and 
Ecclesiastical  and  am  so  blind  hitherto  as  not  to  be  able  to  see  where 
it  is  forbidden  to  preach  to  a  vacant  Church. 

"  However  if  it  is  a  crime  it  must  be  so  in  other  Clergymen  as 
well  as  in  me  and  why  an  interdiction  was  sent  to  me  and  not  to  the 
rest  is  a  general  question  in  Pennsylvania  but  no  man  can  solve  it. 
The  City  Clergy  and  most  of  the  Missionaries  preached  in  St.  Paul's 
even  in  the  the  lifetime  of  Mr.  McClenachan.  This  I  never  did  till 
after  his  death.  Then  circular  letters  were  sent  from  the  Vestry  to 
the  Missionaries  to  supply  them  in  turn.  The  City  Clergy  heartily 
approved  of  this  measure  &  spoke  to  me  and  others  to  comply,  but 
when  they  found  that  the  invitation  was  to  the  missionaries  and  not 
to  themselves,  they  then  wanted  us  to  refuse  supplying  them  with- 
out they  would  invite  them  also.  Drs.  William  Smith  and  [Jacob] 
Duche  set  all  their  friends  to  work  to  try  to  get  St.  Paul's  Vestry  to 
invite  them,  but  all  in  vain.  The  Church  of  St.  Paul's  had  some  in- 
vinceable  reasons  against  Dr.  Smith.  Mr.  [Richard]  Peters  has  but  just 
emerged  from  a  life  of  Politics  and  pleasure  in  a  continual  round  as 
Secretary  to  the  Governor  for  many  years  and  Mr.  Duche  was  wholly 
bent  upon  making  a  powerful  party  among  them,  in  order  to  de- 
stroy the  Church.  All  the  Town  Clergy  had  one  point  in  view  and 
that  was  either  to  aniholate  the  Church  or  bring  them  under  the 
dominion  of  Christ  Church  Vestry;  as  it  seems  to  be  an  established 
maxim  among  them,  that  if  Philadelphia  was  fifty  Miles  Square  and 
had  two  hundred  Churches  in  it,  they  must  be  all  subject  to  one 
Rector  and  one  Vestry.  How  consistent  this  is  to  the  Eccles.  Gov- 
ernment of  the  Church  in  the  City  of  London  or  anywhere  else  the 
Church  is  established,  I  leave  to   the  judgment  of  my  superiors. 

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net,  me^  i^tni 


The  people  of  St.  Pauls  have  built  them  a  Church  and  endowed  it 
with  a  handsome  revenue  and  therefore  claim  and  insist  upon  the 
right  of  presentation.  This  right  Christ  Church  enjoy  without  any 
claim  of  his  Lordship  of  London.  When  St.  Paul's  becomes  vacant 
they  claim  nothing  more  than  the  right  of  presenting  some  Clergy- 
man to  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London.  If  his  Lordship  has  any  Legal 
reason  for  setting  aside  their  choice,  such  as  would  set  aside  a  Clergy- 
man in  one  of  his  own  Courts,  they  will  immediately  discharge 
him  and  proceed  to  the  choice  of  another.  All  this  is  they  humbly 
conceive  coming  as  near  to  the  Eccles.  Laws  as  possible.  But  to 
give  his  Lordship  a  right  to  appoint  whom  he  will  is  a  privilege  his 
Lordship  does  not  enjoy,  or  even  insist  on,  from  Christ  Church  and 
why  he  should  claim  it  of  them,  is  more  than  they  can  possibly  assign 
a  reason  for. 

"  The  opinions  of  the  Philadelphians  is  such  of  Dr.  Smith  that  he 
has  never  been  able  to  procure  himself  to  be  chosen  even  as  an  as- 
sistant in  any  of  their  Churches.  St.  Paul's  people  were  alarmed  at 
the  thoughts  of  giving  up  the  right  of  presentation  to  the  Lord 
Bishop  of  London  as  they  were  afraid  Dr.  Smith  might  prevail  upon 
his  Lordship  to  appoint  him  and  their  knowledge  of  him  was  as  such 
that  no  Clergyman  would  have  been  more  disagi-eeable. 

"  These  were  some  of  the  reasons  alleged  to  me  by  the  people  of 
St.  Paul's  and  without  the  least  view  of  Interest,  reflecting  upon  the 
whole  what  might  be  best  for  the  Church,  I  thought  it  my  duty  to 
preach  for  them  sometimes  upon  the  Sunday  Evening  with  the  leave 
of  my  own  Parish.  All  the  other  Missions  thought  so  too  and 
thought  that  harsh  measures  never  would  make  good  Churchmen  of 
them.  But  their  refusal  of  Dr.  Smith  was  (in  his  own  eyes),  an  un- 
pardonable crime  and  therefore  he  was  determined  to  let  them  feel 
the  weight  of  his  resentment.  Had  he  been  admitted  to  preach  in 
St.  Paul's,  the  Society  would  never  have  been  troubled  upon  this 
head. 

"  When  the  Missionaries  came  in  turn  to  preach  at  St.  Paul's  Dr. 
Smith  threatened  them  immediately  with  the  resentment  of  the  So- 
ciety without  he  would  be  taken  in  amongst  the  rest.  This  condi- 
tion could  not  be  obtained.  Messrs.  Peters  and  Duehe  harped  upon 
the  same  string  but  all  in  vain.  What  a  mortification  to  find  the 
reputation  of  the  Missionaries  superior  to  their  own.  Many  of  the 
Missionaries  were  afraid  and  after  they  came  to  Town  to  officiate 
went  home  again  witjiout  doing  it. 

"Dr.  Smith  threatened  me  in  the  same  manner.  I  told  him  he 
was  neither  Bishop,  Commissary  nor  Deputy  Agent  for  a  eorrespond- 

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^i^tot^  ot  &t  paur!Sf  episcopal  CguccI 

ing  Society,  for  one  or  other  of  which  offices  he  had  been  waiting  for 
many  years,  consequently  he  had  no  power  over  me  &  that  the 
scurility  of  his  language  upon  that  occasion  was  no  mark  of  his  be- 
ing qualified  for  any  of  the  above  places.  That  the  Society  had 
often  approved  of  their  ]\Iissionaries  preaching  occasionally  in  Pres- 
byterian and  Baptist  meeting  houses,  consequently  could  have  no  ob- 
jection to  their  Missionary  preaching  in  a  Church. 

"  What  Dr.  Smith  and  his  Philadelphia  Brethren  have  wrote  home 
upon  this  occasion  I  know  not  nor  does  it  concern  me  at  this  time 
any  otherwise  than,  as  I  am  heartily  sony  to  find  that  the  Venerable 
Body  [is]  so  grossly  abused  and  imposed  upon  by  vile  partial  mis- 
representations which  naturally  brings  them  into  disrepute  in  the 
Colonies  where  their  lustre  should  be  the  most  conspicuous. 

"  When  my  Lord  Arch  Bishop  of  Canterbury  signified  his  dis- 
approbation of  my  preaching  in  St.  Paul's  in  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Smith, 
he  delivered  his  Grace's  commands  with  such  an  arbitrary  tone  that 
I  really  thought  he  was  going  to  reinforce  them  with  a  Cudgel.  I 
asked  him  for  a  copy  of  what  he  had  wrote  to  England  that  I  might 
be  enabled  to  make  my  vindication.  This  he  refused.  However  I 
make  no  douht  he  had  confined  himself  as  strictly  to  truth  as  he  did 
when  he  drew  up  the  Memorial  of  his  wonderful  services  in  Penn- 
sylvania and  got  some  of  the  good  Bishops  in  England  to  sign  it  and 
send  it  to  the  University  of  Oxford  in  order  to  obtain  his  Doctor's 
Degree.  Facts  that  were  just  as  true — many  of  them — as  the  His- 
tory of  Don  Quixote. 

"  These  intollerable  measures  prevailed  with  me  at  last  to  accept 
of  an  offer  Governor  Shai'pe  had  made  me  long  before  of  removing 
into  Mary  land  where  the  Church  is  established  and  no  man  can  be 
ruined  by  partial  information. 

"  Since  I  came  here  the  Church  of  St.  Paul's  in  Philadelphia  as  a 
Testimony  of  their  regard  transmitted  to  me  a  very  handsome  piece 
of  plate  with  the  following  inscription  neatly  engraved — *  The  Gift 
of  the  Church  of  St.  Paul's  in  Philadelphia,  To  the  Reverend  Mr.  Hugh 
Neill  in  gratitude  for  his  disinterested  ministerial  services  to  that  church 
A.  D.  1766."  I  hope  my  Lord  Bishop  of  London  will  approve  of 
my  removal  and  signify  his  approbation  whenever  it  suits  his  eon- 
veniency.  We  have  here  an  Excellent  Governor  which  answers  all 
the  ends  of  a  Bishop  except  in  conferring  orders  and  confirmation. 
I  wish  he  had  this  part  of  the  Episcopal  authority  conferred  upon 
him.    He  would  make  as  good  a  Bishop  as  we  could  wish  for. 

"  If  there  is  any  inf onnation  wanting  from  this  province  in  order  to 
assist  the  Venerable  Society  in  their  most  benevolent  undertakings  I 

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shall  not  only  be  led  by  duty  but  I  incline  at  all  times  to  give  them 
the  best  accounts  I  can.     If  they  choose  to  make  use  of  me,  no  one 
in  the  world  will  be  more  ready  to  execute  their  commands  or  have 
a  more  grateful  sense  of  past  favors  than 
"Revd  Sir,  &c., 

"Hugh  Neill."« 

Refusing  to  accept  monetary  compensation  for  his  services, 
the  vestry,  on  fifteenth  of  June,  1768,  in  order  to  show  the 
appreciation  of  the  congregation,  presented  Mr.  Neill  vv^ith  a 
silver  tankard,^  bearing  the  inscription  mentioned  in  the  fore- 
going letter. 

"  The  Gift  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  in 
Philadelphia  to  the  Reverend  Hugh  Neill, 
in  Gratitude  for  his  disinterested  Min- 
isteral  Services  to  that  Church,  April, 
1766." 

Strangely  enough  when  Mr.  Neill  was  rector  at  Oxford  he 
must  have  had  some  similar  experience,  or  perhaps  it  was  his 
policy,  since  on  May  2,  1763,  he  writes:  ''This  is  no  country 
for  a  missionary  to  make  his  fortune  when  the  only  way  for 
him  to  increase  his  congregation  is  to  give  up  all  pretentions 
to  their  subscriptions  and  to  let  them  know  that  he  preaches 
freely  among  them  as  the  Apostles  did  without  fee  or  reward. ' ' 

Though  St.  Paul's  was  without  a  stated  rector,  it  doubtless 
had  from  time  to  time  various  clerical  supplies.  Among  these 
supplies  may  be  named  that  of  January  9,  1767,  when  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Alkin  preached  a  charity  sermon,  the  collection  at  which 
time,  amounting  to  seventeen  pounds  sterling  was  ' '  for  the  re- 
lief of  the  poor  prisoners  in  the  City  goal. ' '  That  Mr.  Alkin 
was  persona  grata  to  the  church  authorities,  may  be  con- 
cluded from  the  fact  that  he  preached,  on  the  following  Sun- 
days, to  the  congregations  of  Christ  Church  and  St.  Peter's.* 

6  Perry,  vol.  ii,  pp.  417-420. 

7  Purchased  from  John  Leacock  at  a  cost  of  19  pounds,  10  shillings, 
»  Pennsylvania  Gazette  of  January  8  and  15,  1767. 

85 


REV.  WILLIAM  STRINGER 

1768-1777 


m 


R.  Stringer  arrived  in  Philadelphia  from  Eng- 
land, August  20,  1768,  with  a  letter  of  intro- 
duction from  the  Rev.  George  "VVhitefield. 
He  officiated  as  minister-in-charge  from  that 
time  until  May,  1773,  when  he  was  elected 
rector,  and  served  as  such  until  October,  1777,  shortly  after 
which  he  returned  to  England,  where,  at  Barnet,  he  died, 
June  12,  1799. 

Again  the  private  correspondence  of  the  city  clergy,  with 
the  Secretary  of  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel, 
and  the  Bishop  of  London,  affords  the  best  medium  to  an  un- 
derstanding of  the  religious  conditions  prevailing  in  Philadel 
phia  and  particularly  at  St.  Paul's. 

The  indefatigable  Provost  Smith  in  his  letter  of  February 
22,  1769,  to  the  Secretary,  says: 

"  D0ar  and  Worthy  Sir 

"  I  have  no  other  particular  to  add ;  only  to  beg,  as  I  cannot  by  this 
ship  write  to  the  Bishop  of  London,  that  you  would  wait  on  his 
Lordship  to  inform  him  that  the  congregation  of  St.  Paul's  on  re- 
ceiving a  Letter  from  Mr.  Chapman^  that  he  was  coming  out  with 
his  Lordship's  Licence  &  telling  them  that  when  he  shall  come 
out,  Mr.  Stringer,  whom  they  now  have  at  St.  Paul's  cannot  con- 


1  The  Kev.  Walter  Chapman  of  Bath  and  Wells,  see  p.  77. 

80 


laeb.  CJHtlliam  ^ttinget: 


tinue  under  him  &  blaming  them  for  employing  a  man  ordained  ir- 
regularly in  London  by  some  Greek  or  foreign  Bishop.  I  say  on 
receiving  this  letter  of  Chapman's  which  I  think  was  not  blame- 
worthy a  majority  of  the  Congregation  got  offended  at  Chapman  & 
passed  a  sort  of  confused  vote  to  keep  Stringer  even  if  Chapman 
should  come.  ...  I  beg  then  you  may  let  the  Bishop  know  this 
state  of  the  case;  &  if  Mr.  Chapman  comes,  I  think  he  should  be 
encouraged,  as  it  seems  now  the  only  thing  that  can  make  a  regular 
Church  &  keep  it  from  continuing  in  a  state  of  separation.  I  think 
the  Bishop  should  see  Mr.  Chapman  before  he  sends  any  answer; 
only  as  little  use  as  possible  should  be  made  of  my  name.  This 
matter  deserves  serious  consideration. 

"  Mr.  Stringer  seems  a  peaceful  good  man  though  I  am  told  all 
his  sermons  are  in  one  strain  and  only  in  the  way  of  Romaine,  Rev. 
William  Romaine,  author  of  The  Life  Walk  and  Triumph  of  Faith, 
q.  v.,  Etc.  But  were  his  orders  regular  I  believe  he  might  be  made  a 
useful  missionary,  and  he  says  he  is  willing  to  be  employed  whenever 
he  can  serve  the  cause  of  religion. "2 

With  St.  Paul's  it  was  the  old  question,  the  right  of  presen- 
tation, did  it  rest  with  the  Bishop,  or  with  the  Church?  Its 
Articles  of  Agreement  had  placed  it  with  the  Church. 

Nearly  ten  months  later,  December  6,  1769,  the  Rev,  Rich- 
ard Peters,  D.D.,  still  rector  of  the  United  Parishes,  Christ 
Church  and  St.  Peter's,  in  a  letter  to  the  Bishop  of  London, 
covered  some  of  the  same  ground  as  that  of  Dr.  Smith's.  He 
writes : 

"  My  much  Honourd,  Lord, 

"  I  am  ashamed  that  I  have  not  all  this  time  answerd  your  Lord- 
ship's Letter  of  the  25th  November  last  relating  to  Mr.  Stringer,  the 
present  officiating  minister  of  St.  Paul's  Church  in  this  city.  Noth- 
ing however  has  been  omitted  by  me  that  I  could  think  would  do  any 
Grood  to  so  wilful  and  self  conceited  a  People.  As  soon  as  I  received 
your  Lordship's  Letter,  I  communicated  the  Contents  to  Dr.  Smith 
and  Dr.  Duche,  and  conferred  with  them  in  what  manner  to  act. 
Mr.  Stringer  notwithstanding  the  Irregularity  of  his  Introduction 
into  orders  is  a  quiet  inoffensive  and  good  man.  He  gives  constant 
attention  to  his  duty  which  he  punctually  performs  according  to  the 


2  Perry,  vol.  ii,  pp.  437-8. 

87 


Rites  and  Ceremonies  of  our  Church.  He  preaches  on  every  Holy 
Day  and  did  use  to  lecture  once  a  week  in  the  Evening  besides  his 
Ordinary  Duty.  By  this  commendable  Diligence  and  by  never  shew- 
ing the  least  Regard  to  his  Worldly  Interest  or  troubling  his  head 
whether  the  Congregation  gives  him  more  or  less  he  had  obtained  an 
universal  Esteem.  Not  only  the  members  of  his  own  Congregation 
but  all  other  persuasions  expressed  a  Value  for  him  and  thought  the 
City  much  favoured  by  having  so  quiet  and  innocent  a  man  at  the 
head  of  such  a  medley  as  that  Congregation  consists  of.  As  this  was 
the  case  we  all  thought  it  best  to  let  Mr.  Stringer  have  the  first 
Knowledge  of  the  letter,  and  accordingly  it  was  communicated  to  him 
in  a  friendly  manner  by  Dr.  Smith,  Dr.  Duche  and  myself.  After 
he  had  read  the  letter  he  seemed  to  be  in  no  wise  perplexed,  but 
frankly  owned  that  your  Lordship  had  given  a  true  Account  of 
What  had  passed  except  that,  as  he  says,  your  Lordship  was  mistaken 
in  saying  he  promised  not  to  do  any  Duty  under  this  Greek  Orders, 
he  promised  not  to  do  Duty  under  them  till  he  had  your  Lordship's 
answer,  and  when  he  received  that  answer  which  was  so  peremptory 
against  him,  and  a  total  Discouragement  for  ever  making  any  appli- 
cation to  the  Society  he  looked  on  his  promise  to  be  no  further  bind- 
ing as  there  could  be  no  Connection  after  that  between  your  Lord- 
ship and  him.  He  ownd  likewise  that  your  Lordship  had  his  orders, 
and  that  from  what  your  Lordship  had  said  about  the  character  of 
the  Bishop  who  ordained  him,  as  if  he  was  no  real  Bishop,  he  had 
got  a  good  Enquiry  made  into  that  Fact,  and  found  that  he  was  truly 
the  Bishop  he  pretended  to  be,  and  therefore  he  had  applied  to  him 
who  was  then  still  at  Amsterdam  to  send  him  Duplicates  of  his 
orders  which  he  did  and  under  these  he  now  acts  and  thinks  he  may 
rightly  act  as  a  Minister  of  the  Gospel;  and  as  his  affections  are 
really  in  favour  of  the  service  and  articles  of  the  Church  of  England 
and  he  thinks  he  is  well  warranted  to  read  her  Service  and  do  all  the 
Duty  of  a  Church  of  England  Minister  in  any  congregation  that  will 
please  to  employ  him.  That  he  did  not  come  over  to  America  on 
any  particular  Plan  but  from  the  hopes  of  doing  good  in  any  place, 
no  matter  what,  for  he  had  no  notion  of  one  place  more  than  an- 
other. That  he  came  to  Philadelphia  and  was  applied  to  by  the  Con- 
gregation of  St.  Paul's.  •  It  was  they  applied  to  him  not  he  to  them, 
and  that  as  he  is  only  an  occasional  Minister  to  them,  as  soon  as 
they  please  to  declare  their  Desire  that  he  should  no  longer  officiate, 
he  would  as  gladly  leave  them  as  stay  with  them,  and  go  to  some 
other  Place.  That  all  Places  are  alike  to  him  and  that  he  should  go 
where  God  directed  him :  and  he  said  further  that  as  he  had  from  the 


1Eltb«  dQltlltam  &trtnset 


very  first  given  the  same  account  of  himself  to  the  Congregation  as 
your  Lordship  had  done  in  your  letter,  we  might  proceed  to  lay  it 
before  the  Congregation  or  Vestry  in  what  manner  we  pleased,  for 
it  would  give  him  no  concern  whether  they  would  or  would  not  dis- 
miss him. 

"  We  then  thought  it  best  to  desire  the  Church  Wardens  to  call  a 
Vestry  in  order  to  give  me  an  opportunity  of  laying  your  Lordship's 
letter  before  them.  They  promised  to  do  it,  but  shuffled  from  time 
to  time  and  at  last  expressed  a  total  indifference  about  it,  and  that 
they  would  be  satisfied  with  their  Minister  on  the  foot  he  was  em- 
ployed by  them  notwithstanding  your  Lordship's  letter.  They  were 
told  over  and  over  that  he  was  no  more  a  Minister  of  the  Church  of 
England  than  any  of  the  Preachers  among  the  other  Sectaries  and 
that  his  being  in  any  wise  employed  by  the  Vestry  or  Congregation 
to  do  duty  as  a  Minister  of  the  Church  of  England  was  expressly 
against  their  Constitution  and  a  total  Defection  from  any  English 
Ecclesiastical  Jurisdiction.  This  they  owned  but  for  all  that  are  de- 
termined to  go  on  as  they  do,  and  the  reason  is  apparent.  It  is  this. 
Some  few  men  do  hereby  retain  their  Power  and  Influence  and  Reign 
Sole  Sovereigns  of  the  Congregation,  and  it  will  go  on  as  it  does 
until  they  quarrel  amongst  themselves  and  then  they  may  return  to 
Order. 

"  This  is  a  faithful  and  full  and  true  account  of  the  State  of  this 
Church,  and  I  heartily  am  sorry  that  it  was  not  made  sooner  to  your 
Lordship.  I  have  no  Excuse  for  my  delay;  I  shall  not  hereafter 
have  any  Connection  with  Minister  or  Congregation  of  St.  Paul's, 
who  have  not  only  been  very  undutiful  to  your  Lordship,  but  have 
also  been  peculiarly  ungrateful  to  me  in  the  manner  they  have  thought 
fit  to  demean  themselves  as  well  as  in  their  mannner  of  representing 
what  I  have  done  and  said  in  this  matter,  I  am, 
"Your  Lordship, 
"  most  obedient  and 

"most  humble  and  dutiful 
"  Son  and  Servant, 

"Richard  Peters." 

Mr.  Stringer  probably  never  saw  or  heard  of  these  letters, 
and  from  his  general  attitude  we  may  conclude  they  would 
have  caused  him  no  concern  if  he  had  known  of  them.  He 
was  a  man  of  quiet  goodness  and  gave  constant  attention  to 
his   duties,   which   he   punctually   performed,   preaching   on 

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Holy  Days  and  lecturing  once  a  week  in  the  evening,^  and 
was  universally  esteemed. 

He  supplied  the  church  until  May,  1773,  without  being 
elected  rector,  owing  to  some  question  about  the  validity  of 
his  ordination  by  Erasmus,  Bishop  of  Arcadia  in  the  Island 
of  Crete,  as  already  stated ;  but,  having  returned  to  England 
in  1772,  and  obtained  regular  ordination  from  the  Bishop  of 
London,  he  was  unanimously  elected  rector  on  the  fourth  of 
May,  1773. 

After  Mr.  Stringer's  departure  to  London  to  obtain  his 
orders  the  clergy  of  the  United  Churches  of  Christ  Church 
and  St.  Peter's  interested  themselves  in  the  congregation  and 
officiated  during  his  absence  in  his  church.  Upon  his  return, 
church  matters  were  upon  a  good  foundation,  and  he  entered 
upon  his  duties  with  earnestness  and  regularity,  and  labored 
with  great  success  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution, 
when  his  affection  for  King  George  and  his  outspoken  interest 
in  the  Royalist  cause,  rendered  him  persona  non  grata  to 
St.  Paul's  congregation,  and  the  inevitable  open  rupture  oc- 
curred. 

At  this  period,  the  position  of  the  clergy  sent  to  the  Colo- 
nies as  missionaries  by  the  venerable  Society  for  the  Propa- 
gation of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts  was  a  difficult  one.  In- 
deed, it  was  not  only  difficult  but  perplexing,  even  dangerous, 

3  The  evening  lectures  appear  to  have  been  on  Tuesdays.  At  a  meeting 
of  Lodge  No.  2,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Philadelphia,  held  May 
8,  1770,  the  minutes  state:  "The  Worshipful  Master  having  thought  it 
ill  convenient  to  meet  on  Tuesday  nights  as  several  of  the  brethren, 
members  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  being  thereby  deprived  of  the  evening 
lectures,  it  was  balloted  whether  the  same  could  not  without  greater 
inconveniency  be  changed.  The  same  was  unanimously  carried  in  the 
affirmative.  It  was  then  put  to  the  ballot  what  night  was  most  proper, 
and  it  was  determined  on  the  second  Wednesday  of  every  month,  the 
Secretary  to  have  notice  that  he  may  persue  according  to  these  minutes. ' ' 
(Barratt-Sachse,  "Freemasonry  in  Pennsylvania,"  vol.  i,  p.  201,  in 
fac-simile.) 

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Witt,  dZAilltam  ^tttnget 


and  differed  widely  from  that  of  the  laymen  of  the  Church. 
By  far  the  greater  proportion  of  the  Colonial  settlers  in 
founding  homes  in  a  new  country  had,  through  the  creation 
of  new  interests  and  the  flight  of  time,  severed  connection  with 
the  old.  Hence  there  was  nothing  anomalous  in  their  de- 
scendants, "Washington,  Patrick  Henry,  Franklin,  Livingston, 
Sterling,  the  Morrises,  Jay,  Kichard  Henry  Lee,  Madison, 
Morgan,  the  Pendletons,  Draytons,  Heywards,  Pinckneys  and 
other  distinguished  adherents  of  the  English  State  Church, 
declaring  against  England.  Not  so  the  Colonial  clergy  who, 
personally  and  professionally,  were  not  only  connected  with 
the  mother  country  but  bound  to  her  as  priests  of  the  Estab- 
lishment. When  ordained  they  had  sworn  perpetual  allegi- 
ance to  the  King,  and  the  Bishop  of  London,  their  ecclesias- 
tical superior,  had  record  of  their  oaths.  They,  therefore, 
found  themselves  in  a  most  uncomfortable  position  when  Con- 
gress appointed  July  20,  1775,  as  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer, 
a  position  most  graphically  set  forth  in  the  address  to  the 
Bishop  of  London  of  July  20,  1775,  signed  by  Mr.  Stringer 
and  others  of  the  Philadelphia  clergy: 

Richard  Peters,  Wm.  Smith, 

Jacob  Duche,  Thomas  Coombe, 

William  Stringer,  William  White. 

"Never  were  men  in  a  more  trying  or  delicate  position," 
writes  Dr.  Smith  to  the  Lord  Bishop  on  July  10.  "Now  our 
people  have  all  taken  up  Arms  and  entered  into  associations 
never  to  submit  to  the  Parliamentary  claim  of  taxing  them  at 
pleasure.  We  see  nothing  in  our  Churches  but  men  in  their 
uniforms  &  tho '  they  excuse  us  on  Sundays  they  are  now  every- 
where requesting  occasional  sermons  on  the  present  situation  of 
things.  The  case  of  the  poor  Missionaries  is  hard.  To  com- 
ply may  offend  their  protectors  and  those  that  support  them 
in  the  Parent  Countr3^     To  refuse  would  leave  them  without 

91 


^iiStorp  of  fet  ^mV0  d^pijsfcopal  C^urcJ 

Congregations  everywhere;  and  perhaps  it  is  more  the  wish 
of  some  that  they  should  refuse  than  comply. '  '* 

On  October  6,  1775,  the  clergy  again  addressed  the  Bishop 
of  London,  saying,  inter  alia,  * '  Our  Distresses  are  great ;  our 
anxiety  for  the  welfare  of  the  whole  British  Empire  still 
greater;  but  in  these  most  trying  times  we  hope  to  approve 
ourselves  the  hearty  and  steady  friends  of  the  constitution, 
both  in  church  and  state,  and  the  faithful  ministers  of  the 
gospel  of  peace  and  love. ' '  This  letter,  signed  by  Philip  Read- 
ing, George  Craig,  Thomas  Barton,  Charles  Inglis,  D[aniel] 
Batwelle,  Samuel  Tingley,  Alexander  Murray,  John  Odell, 
Sam.  Magaw,  Wm.  Thompson,  Geo.  Panton,  Wm.  Frazer, 
shows  that  the  writers  were  as  yet  unable  to  realize  that  the 
colonists  meant  what  they  said,  viz. :  that  they  would  no 
longer  tolerate  in  the  Colony  the  union  of  church  and  state. 

The  parishioners  of  St.  Paul 's  looked  solely  to  the  salvation 
of  their  souls.  They  cared  nothing  for  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land as  a  state  church,  and  saw  no  inconsistency  in  using  her 
Prayer  Book,  taking  up  arms  against  the  King,  and  in  re- 
fraining from  using  those  prayers  for  the  royal  family  and 
the  King,  against  whom  they  were  fighting.  The  culminat- 
ing event  which  led  to  the  dissolution  of  Mr.  Stringer's  con- 
nection with  the  parish  is  interesting  as  showing  the  tension 
and  temper  of  our  Revolutionary  ancestors. 

General  William  Howe,  in  command  of  the  English  forces, 
left  New  York  by  sea  in  August,  1777,  to  attack  and  capture 
the  city  of  Philadelphia.  On  September  11,  he  defeated 
Washington  and  the  troops  at  Brandywine.  On  September  27, 
Philadelphia  was  captured,  although  Col.  Blathwaite  Jones, 
Washington's  chief  engineer  officer  in  1777-1778,  built  the 
fortification  at  Billingsport  and  across  the  Delaware  River  to 
prevent  it. 

4  Perry,  vol.  ii,  pp.  472,  475,  480-1. 

92 


ISitb,  milliam  ^ttineet 


Congress  left  the  State  House  and  fled  from  the  city,  and 
held  sessions  at  Lancaster  and  at  York  in  Pennsylvania.  On 
October  4,  Washington  attacked  the  British  and  was  defeated 
at  Germantown.  Then  Washington's  troops  on  December 
19,  1777,  went  into  winter  quarters,  hutting  at  Valley  Forge, 
in  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania,  as  suggested  by  General  An- 
thony Wayne,  where  they  suffered  much  misery.  Many  of 
the  patriotic  parishioners  of  St.  Paul's  were  with  Washing- 
ton's army,  as  were  their  relatives  and  friends;^  not  the  least 
among  them  was  Colonel  Thomas  Proctor,  Chief  of  Artillery 
who  received  his  commission  May  18,  1779.  He  was  in 
Wayne's  Bergen  Neck  expedition  and  was  satirized  by  Major 
Andre  in  the  * '  Cowchase ' ' : 

"  Sons  of  distant  Delaware, 
And  still  remoter  Shannon 
And  Major  Lee  with  horses  rare 
And  Procter  with  his  cannon." 

The  Sunday  after  the  British  captured  Philadelphia,  one 
of  the  lessons  was  Ezekiel  20th.  The  38th  verse  is,  **I  will 
purge  out  the  rebels  from  among  you  and  those  that  trans- 
gress. ' ' 

The  form  of  prayer  for  fasting  and  prayer  appointed  by 
King  George  III  to  be  read  in  churches  in  December,  1776, 
on  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution,  which  was  called  the 
'* Prayer  for  our  Enemies,"  had  already  caused  trouble  for 
some  rectors. 

The  term  "Rebel,"  being  the  offensive  epithet  applied  by 
the  British  to  the  Americans,  some  of  St.  Paul 's  congregation, 
impelled  by  the  violence  of  their  political  feelings,  charged 
Mr.  Stringer  with  designedly  selecting  this  lesson  as  a  public 

5  See  preface,  ' '  Freemasonry  in  Pennsylvania, ' '  Barratt-Sachse,  vol.  i, 
xii-xiii.  Lodge  No.  2,  F.  &  A.  M.  held  no  meetings  from  July  21,  1777, 
until  November  6,  1778,  during  the  British  occupation  of  Philadelphia. 

93 


threat  against  them,  and  the  excitement  produced  by  it  was 
so  great  that  it  led  to  an  immediate  rupture  between  the  pas- 
tor and  his  flock,  and  the  severance  of  his  pastoral  relations. 

Thus  the  church  was  again  without  a  regular  pastor  for 
four  years,  from  October,  1777,  to  January,  1781,  covering 
the  important  part  of  the  war,  which  was  concluded  October 
19,  1781,  by  the  surrender  of  Lord  Cornwallis,  at  Yorktown, 
Virginia,  of  his  entire  army  of  seven  thousand  men  to  Wash- 
ington. But  there  must  have  been  good  preaching  at  St. 
Paul's,  since  John  Adams,  of  Massachusetts,  wrote  his  wife 
of  visiting  the  Episcopal  Churches  and  that  he  heard  ''better 
prayers,  better  speaking,  softer,  sweeter  music,  and  saw  gen- 
teeler  company  than  elsewhere."® 

The  clergy  who  were  loyal  to  the  king,  in  the  then  state  of 
the  public  mind,  were  afraid  to  pray  for  the  success  of  the 
King  and  the  Royal  arms ;  and  while  they  continued  to  hold 
the  services  they  omitted  both  prayers  and  dodged  the  ques- 
tion. The  result  was  our  ancestors  called  them  traitors, 
tories  and  British  emissaries.  From  the  standpoint  of  the 
American  who  was  an  Episcopal  layman,  his  church  by  reason 
of  the  fact  that  it  was  in  union  with  the  State  with  which  he 
was  at  war,  was  not  equal  to  the  occasion,  and  was  lined  up  with 
his  enemies.  In  consequence  thereof  the  sufferings  of  the 
Royalist  clergy  were  intense.  Some  were  soused  in  ponds, 
mobbed,  shot  at,  robbed,  starved,  banished,  imprisoned.  Their 
cattle  were  killed,  their  churches  wrecked  and  their  libraries 
burned.  Many  returned  to  private  life,  some  to  Great 
Britain,  others  to  Nova  Scotia.  The  Rev.  Dr.  McConnell,  in 
his  valuable  "History  of  the  American  Episcopal  Church," 
pages  210-211,  gives  a  list  of  those  clergymen  who  suffered 
and  were  banished  because  they  remained  loyal  to  the  King. 

On  the  other  hand,  it  is  to  be  noted  that  the  patriot  clergy 

6  Anne  H.  Wharton 's  ' '  Salons  Colonial  and  Eepublican, ' '  p.  28. 

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held  that  their  oath  of  allegiance  had  been  transferred  from  Ir^'' 

the  de  jure  to  the  de  facto  King,  viz.,  the  people !  Hence  Ay  res  ^^y 
in  his  '  *  Life  of  Dr.  John  Peter  Muhlenberg, ' '  relates  how  that 
distinguished  clergyman  at  his  Woodstock  Church,  in  Virginia, 
having  accepted  a  colonel's  commission,  took  leave  of  his 
parishioners  in  an  eloquent  sermon  upon  the  duty  of  the  hour, 
exclaiming  in  conclusion:  ** There  is  a  time  for  all  things,  a 
time  to  preach  and  a  time  to  pray ;  but  there  is  also  a  time  to 
fight,  and  that  time  has  now  come."  Pronouncing  the  bene- 
diction, he  threw  off  his  clerical  gown  and  stood  revealed  in  a 
full  military  uniform.  Proceeding  to  the  door  of  the  church 
with  a  recruiting  sergeant 's  roll  in  his  hand  he  enlisted  nearly 
three  hundred  of  his  hearers.  Almost  immediately  he 
marched  to  the  relief  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  where  his  regiment, 
the  8th  Virginia,  gained  a  reputation  for  discipline  and  brav- 
ery. His  monument,  giving  him  his  highest  title  of  major 
general,  stands  on  the  south  pavement  of  our  City  Hall, 
Philadelphia,  depicting  this  identical  scene. 

William  White,  afterwards  first  Bishop^  of  Pennsylvania, 
who,  with  John  Peter  Muhlenberg^  and  William  Braidfoot  of 
Virginia,  had  been  privately  ordained  April  23,  1722,  at  the 
King's  Chapel,  St.  James,  by  the  Bishop  of  London,  became 
chaplain  of  the  Continental  Congress,  and  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance  to  the  United  States  in  1776. 

8  Muhlenberg  states  in  his  Journal  that  the  three  of  them  went  to  the 
theatre  to  see  the  celebrated  Garrick. 

7  Consecrated  on  Sunday,  February  4,  1787,  by  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  in  the  Chapel  of  Lambeth  Palace. 


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THE  RECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  MAGAW 

1781-1804 

HE  Reverend  Samuel  Magaw,  D.D.,  rector  from 
£  «^  January,  1781,  to  February  15,  1804,  when  fail- 

A     I  iiig  health  compelled  his  resignation,  was  born  in 

^^^^^      Cumberland  County,  Pennsylvania,  about  1735, 
and   died   at   Philadelphia,    December   1,    1812. 
His  body  was  buried  in  the  chancel  of  St.  Paul's,  and  the 
church  draped  with  the  emblem  of  mourning. 

Sprung  from  that  sturdy  Scotch-Irish  stock  which  gave  to 
the  Colonies  many  Revolutionary  heroes  and  to  the  American 
Church  many  eminent  divines,  Samuel  Magaw  was  a  member 
of  the  first  class  to  graduate  from  the  Philadelphia  College, 
now  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  in  1757.  Educated  for 
a  tutorship  at  the  suggestion  of  the  college  authorities,  he 
afterward  studied  theology  and  was  among  the  last  mission- 
aries sent  to  America,  in  1767,  by  the  venerable  Society  for  the 
Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts.  Writing  to  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  November  13,  1766,  Dr.  William 
Smith  of  the  College,  said:  "Mr.  Andrews  and  Mr.  Magaw 
were  educated  and  graduated  under  me,  and  I  hope  on  Exami- 
nation will  do  credit  to  our  College.  Their  Letters  to  Dr. 
Barton  mention  their  Destination,  viz.,  Dover  and  Lewes  on 
Delaware  and  their  Testimonials  to  your  Lordship  will  certify 

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their  moral  character."  A  month  later,  Dr.  Smith  again 
alludes  to  the  young  priests  in  a  letter  to  the  Archbishop  and 
hopes  that,  ' '  it  will  appear  to  your  Lordship  that  they  are  well 
grounded  in  their  education."^ 

Sometime  previous  to  this,  Mr.  Magaw  had  been  associated 
with  the  Rev.  Charles  Inglis  in  teaching  school  at  Lancaster, 
Pennsylvania,  and  this  association  may  have  led  to  his  even- 
tually succeeding  Mr.  Inglis,^  in  1767,  as  rector  of  Christ 
Church,  Dover,  Delaware,  upon  the  latter 's  removal  to  Trin- 
ity Church,  New  York  City. 

At  Dover,  his  rectorate  was  preeminently  satisfactory. 
He  finished  the  church  at  Duck  Creek  Cross  Roads,  now 
Smyrna,  begun  by  Mr.  Inglis  and  named  St.  Peter's,  which 
was  used  for  the  first  time  on  Trinity  Sunday,  in  1769.  In 
those  two  years  he  had  baptized  six  adults  and  one  hundred 
and  ninety-eight  children,  of  which  latter  five  were  negroes, 

1  Perry,  vol.  ii,  pp.  412,  413,  456,  475,  481. 

2  Charles  Inglis,  native  of  Ireland  and  son  of  a  clergyman  whose  father 
and  grandfather  had  also  been  clergymen,  was  missionary  at  Dover  from 
1759  to  1765,  and  assistant  rector  and  rector  of  Trinity,  New  York,  1765 
to  1783.  When  the  war  came  he  sided  with  the  mother  country  and  her 
government  and  suffered  for  his  principles.  Kequested  by  Washington  to 
omit  prayers  for  the  King  and  royal  family,  he  refused  so  to  do,  and,  fol- 
lowing the  Declaration  of  Independence  he  caused  his  church  to  be  closed. 
In  1777  he  became  rector  of  Trinity,  and  in  1781-2,  chaplain  to  the  First 
battalion  New  Jersey  volunteers  [Tories].  He  resigned  his  rectorship  in 
1783  and  went  to  Halifax.  Consecrated  at  Lambeth,  England,  in  1787, 
Bishop  of  Nova  Scotia,  he  had  the  distinction  of  being  the  first  colonial 
bishop  of  the  Church.  King's  College,  now  Columbia,  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  A.M.  in  1767,  and  in  1770  he  was  appointed  one  of  the 
governors  of  that  college.  He  was  the  author  of  several  religious  publica- 
tions. In  Delaware,  in  1764,  he  married  Mary  Vining,  whose  mother, 
Mary,  widow  of  Captain  Benjamin  Vining  of  New  Jersey,  afterwards  be- 
came the  wife  of  Judge  Nicholas  Eidgley,  of  Delaware.  Bishop  Inglis 
died  at  Halifax,  February  24,  1816,  His  son,  John  Inglis,  was  also 
bishop  of  Nova  Scotia.  His  grandson.  Sir  John  Eardley  Wilmot  Inglis, 
succeeded  to  the  command  at  Lucknow,  when  that  place  was  besieged  by 
the  Sepoys  in  1857.  Scharf 's  "History  of  Delaware,"  vol.  ii,  pp.  1054- 
5;  Appleton's  "Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biography,"  vol.  iii,  p.  349. 

8  97 


l^motTf  ot  &t  pauPiEi  episcopal  Cj^utcj^ 

and  his  communicants,  at  that  chapel,  numbered  ninety-four. 
Effective  as  a  preacher,  zealous  in  the  promotion  of  Chris- 
tianity within  and  without  the  limits  of  his  parish,  "of  great 
urbanity  of  manners  and  apparent  kindliness  of  spirit,"  he 
maintained  cordial  relations  with  the  neighboring  clergy. 
There  is  record  evidence  that,  frequently,  he  administered  the 
sacraments  of  baptism  and  the  Holy  Communion  at  Barratt's 
Chapel,^  some  eleven  miles  south  of  Dover.  The  Rev,  Francis 
Asbury,*  later  Bishop  Asbury  of  the  Methodist  Church,  men- 
tioned him  as  preaching  an  excellent  sermon  and  as  being  "a 
kind,  sensible  and  friendly  minister  of  the  Episcopal  Church." 

His  Dover  mission  included  the  County  of  Kent,  some 
thirty  measured  miles  along  the  River  Delaware,  with  four 
churches,*  two  of  which  were  thirty-two  miles  apart,  and  a 
population  moderately  estimated  at  about  seven  thousand 
souls,  of  which  one  third  of  those  who  had  religious  affiliations 
were  members  of  the  Church  of  England.  Nevertheless,  Mr. 
Magaw  found  time  for  study  and  the  acceptable  discharge  of 
duties  to  the  community  at  large. 

During  the  anxiety  and  hesitancy  of  the  early  Revolution- 
ary period,  he,  like  William  White  and  some  few  clergy  of 
the  Episcopal  Church,  took  the  American  side.     This  was 

3  The  paternal  ancestors  of  the  writer  were  of  Cecil  County,  Maryland, 
1676;  became  Delawareans  in  1740  and  had  a  plantation  of  twelve  hun- 
dred acres  in  Kent  County,  below  Dover,  where  Mr.  Magaw  was  a  fre- 
quent and  welcome  visitor.  Knowledge  of  him  genealogically  and  his- 
torically has  come  from  both  paternal  and  maternal  lines,  which,  while 
friendly  with  him,  were  unknown  to  each  other  at  that  time. 

4  In  November,  1780,  Dr.  Magaw,  Bishop  Asbury,  Caleb  B.  Pedicord, 
Joseph  Hartley,  Eev.  Joseph  Cromwell  and  Rev.  Thomas  Coke,  D.D.,  met 
at  Barratt's  Chapel  and  celebrated  the  first  Quarterly  Meeting.  One 
thousand  persons  were  present.  Scharf  's  '  *  History  of  Delaware, ' '  vol.  ii, 
p.  1157.  "Barratt's  Chapel,"  Norris  S.  Barratt,  Papers  His.  Soc.  of 
Delaware,  1911,  Ivii,  pp.  25-26. 

5  Christ  Church,  Dover;  St.  Paul's,  Smyrna;  Christ  Church,  Mispillion 
and  St.  Paul's,  near  the  Maryland  line. 

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perhaps  to  be  expected.  His  brother,  Robert  Magaw^  of 
Carlisle,  in  June,  1775,  was  major  of  the  Pennsylvania  Bat- 
talion of  Riflemen,  and  on  January  2,  1776,  was  chosen 
colonel  of  the  Fifth  Pennsylvania  Line.  Another  brother, 
William  Magaw,^  of  Mercersburg,  was,  in  June,  1775,  surgeon 
of  the  Pennsylvania  Battalion  of  Riflemen,  afterward  surgeon 
of  the  Fourth  Pennsylvania  Line  and  later  of  the  First  Penn- 
sylvania Line.  Both  were  original  members  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania State  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

Like  his  family  and  parishioners  Mr.  Magaw  desired  peace, 
but  peace  with  honor.  His  sermon  preached  at  Christ  Church, 
Philadelphia,  on  Sunday,  October  8,  1775,*  leaves  no  doubt 
that  he  was  keenly  alive  to  the  exigencies  of  the  hour,  and 
his  letter  to  the  Bishop  of  London,  a  year  later,  October  7, 
1776,  graphically  sets  forth  the  position  of  the  American 
clergy  of  the  English  Church,  and  pathetically  shows  the 
struggle  between  his  own  sense  of  gratitude  to  established 
church  order,  and  his  anxiety  for  the  proper  adjustment  of 
the  struggle.    He  says : 

"  The  situation  of  the  Clergymen  of  the  Church  of  England  in  Amer- 
ica you  well  know,  is  at  this  time  particularly  delicate  and  hazard- 

6  After  the  surrender  of  Fort  Washington  Colonel  Magaw  was  a 
prisoner  of  war  in  New  York,  where  he  married,  April  6,  1779,  Marrite 
van  Brunt,  daughter  of  Kutgers  van  Brunt,  who  died  August  15,  1803, 
aged  49  years,  7  mos.,  5  days. — Inscriptions  in  Eeformed  Dutch  Church- 
yard, Gravesend,  L.  I.;  Egle's  "Notes  and  Queries,"  Keprint  First  and 
Second  Series,  vol.  i,  pp.  468-471. 

7  Attended  Lafayette  when  wounded  at  Brandywine.  Pennsylvania 
Magazine  of  History,  vol.  ix,  p.  276. 

8  A  I  Discourse  |  Preached  in  Christ  Church,  |  Philadelphia,  on  Sunday, 
October  8th,  1775  |  By  the  Kev.  Samuel  Magaw  A.M.  |  of  Kent  County,  on 
Delaware.  |  Philadelphia.  \  Printed  and  Sold  by  Story  and  Humphreys,  I 
in  Norris's  Alley,  near  Front  Street. \  M.DCC,  LXXV  |  8vo,  pp.  14.  A 
presentation  copy  of  this,  now  in  The  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania, 
bears  on  the  fly  leaf  the  following  inscription  in  Mr.  Magaw 's  clear 
handwriting:  "For  Mrs.  Lucy  Magaw  from  her  most  loving  friend  and 
affectionate  servant,"  The  Author,  Dee.  25,  1775. 

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ous,  inasmuch  as  we  have  the  welfare  of  our  Holy  Religion  to 
maintain,  amidst  a  variety  of  difficulties,  opposing  Interests  and 
Misconceptions.  With  regard  to  myself  I  hold  that  it  is  my  duty 
for  conscience  sake  and  out  of  gratitude  to  the  venerable  Society,"  in 
whose  employment  I  am  engaged,  to  walk  at  the  present  Critical  junc- 
ture with  peculiar  Caution  and  Circumspection  avoiding  every  Com- 
pliance that  I  supposed  they  might  disapprove  of  and  availing  myself 
of  such  mild  persuasive  expedients  as  I  thought  would  have  a  tend- 
ency to  preserve  peace  and  good  order  among  the  people  whose 
property,  under  their  direction  I  am  in  some  degree  intrusted  with. 
Through  the  whole  compass  of  America  I  do  not  believe  there  can  be 
anywhere  a  stronger  attachment  to  the  parent  counti-y  or  a  more 
warm  regard  for  that  religion  which  we  jointly  profess,  than  among 
the  greater  number  of  those  among  whom  I  have  been  appointed  to 
minister.  They  ardently  wish  for  peace,  they  look  for  reconcilia- 
tion, safe,  constitutional  and  permanent."® 

Among  the  incidents  of  his  later  career  at  Dover  are  two 
sermons  preached  at  Christ  Church,  the  first,  on  Monday, 
December,  1779,  being  the  anniversary  of  St.  John  the  Evan- 
;gelist,  at  the  request  and  before  the  General  Communication 
•of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Delaware  State.  There  are 
some  political  references  in  it,  and  the  sermon  is  **  Dedicated 
to  his  Excellency,  Caesar  Rodney,  Esq.,  Governor,  Captain- 
General  and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Delaware  State,  the 
friend  of  his  Country  and  the  Lover  of  all  Social  Virtues." 
In  the  course  of  his  address,  Mr.  Magaw  named  distinguished 
Masons  "from  Jubal  and  Enoch  to  Franklin  and  concluded 
with  the  illustrious  Cincinnatus  of  our  age,  a  Washington."^" 
The  second  sermon,  delivered  before  the  same  body,  on  the 
following  anniversary  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist,  Wednes- 
day, December  27,  1780,^^  was  dedicated,  at  the  request  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity, ' '  To  his  Excellency  General  Washington. ' ' 

9  Perry's  "Historical  Collections,"  etc.,  vol.  v,  p.  128. 

10  Printed  in  Philadelphia,  by  John  Dunlap,  in  Market  Street  [1779], 
8vo,  pp.  16. 

11  Printed,  Philadelphia,  by  David  C.  Claypoole,  MDCCLXXXI,  8vo, 
pp.  16. 

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In  1779,  Mr.  Magaw  was  elected  rector  of  St.  Paul's,  Phila- 
delphia, but  did  not  accept  until  1781.  Early  in  his  incum- 
bency, the  church  was  incorporated  under  the  name  and  title 
of  "The  Minister  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul,  in  the  City  Philadelphia,  in  the 
Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania."  The  same  being  enacted 
into  a  law  "at  Philadelphia,  the  twenty- third  day  of  Septem- 
ber, in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
eighty-three." 

Upon  his  removal  to  Philadelphia,  he  built  and  resided  m  a 
three-story  brick  mansion  on  the  north  side  of  Market  Street 
above  Eighth,  thirty-three  feet  on  Market  Street,  extending 
three  hundred  and  six  feet  to  Filbert  Street.  It  was  later 
occupied  by  Paul  Beck,  Esq.,  and  was  regarded  as  a  show 
place.  At  Philadelphia,  the  man  measured  up  to  his  opportu- 
nities and  duties  and  obtained  general  esteem  for  clerical  and 
administrative  ability.  From  1782  to  1791  he  was  Vice  Pro- 
vost and  professor  of  moral  philosophy  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  which,  in  1783,  gave  hijn  the  D.D.  degree.  The 
American  Philosophical  Society,  in  1784,  elected  him  to  mem- 
bership, and  he  was  one  of  the  secretaries  thereof  from  1785  to 
1799,  and  councillor  six  years  from  1800.  He  assisted  in  found- 
ing the  Academy  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  which,  for  a  time, 
was  conducted  next  to  St.  Paul's  Church  at  Third  and  Pear 
Streets."  He  and  his  father-in-law,  Andrew  Doz,  were  among 
its  first  trustees,  as  was  John  Baynton  and  others,  of  St. 
Paul's.  For  some  time  after  its  incorporation  in  1792,  he  was 
president  of  the  Academy  for  Young  Ladies,  started  by  John 

12  Still  owned  by  the  trustees  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  deed 
dated  April  10,  1792.  For  history  of  Episcopal  Academy,  see 
Academy  v.  Taylor,  30  Weekly  Notes  of  Cases.  Philadelphia  [1892], 
p.  529.  In  1809,  Dr.  Monges,  the  French  refugee,  and  his  family  occu- 
pied it  as  a  residence.  Edward  S.  Sayres,  Esq.,  a  member  of  the  Colonial 
Society,  now  has  his  law  office  in  the  building,  dear  to  the  heart  of  the 
antiquarian  and  scholar  as  the  printing  house  of  Kobert  Bell,  1768-1784. 

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Poor,  in  Cherry  Street,  about  1787.  The  annual  eommenee- 
ments  in  the  churches,  and  street  parades  of  this  fashionable 
institution  of  learning  were  occasions  of  interest  in  the  town.^^ 
Some  of  Mr.  Magaw's  addresses  and  prayers,  then  delivered, 
have  been  printed. 

Bishop  White  in  his  "Memoirs"  makes  honorable  mention 
of  the  part  taken  by  Doctor  Magaw  in  1784,  in  the  early 
movement  towards  the  organization  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
in  the  United  States.  This  organization  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  is  full  of  interest,  and  as  St.  Paul's,  in  the 
persons  of  her  rector  and  lay  delegates,  was  a  factor  in  the 
movement,  a  brief  outline  of  the  constructive  steps  may  be 
pertinent. 

At  the  time  of  the  Revolution,  Philadelphia  had  two  par- 
ishes, Christ  Church  and  St.  Peter's  which  were  united,  and 
St.  Paul's.  A  parish  is  a  component  number  of  Christians 
dwelling  near  together  under  one  rector  having  the  care  of  the 
souls  therein.  The  parish  is  the  ecclesiastical  unit.  It  has  no 
special  legal  signification  in  Pennsylvania  and  is  merely  used 
in  its  general  sense."  The  true  legal  theory  is  that  a  parochial 
church  is  a  consecrated  place,  having  attached  to  it  the  rights 
of  burial  and  the  administration  of  the  sacraments.^^  Legally, 
parishes  are  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Pennsylvania  and 
that  is  their  civil  organization.  Their  ecclesiastical  organiza- 
tion commences  upon  their  admission  by  the  diocesan  conven- 
tion, and  they  are  entitled  to  three  lay  deputies  to  represent 
the  parish.  The  parishes  elect  their  clergy.  The  clergy  have 
seats  in  the  convention  "by  right  of  orders,"  and  represent 
themselves.     In  important  matters  the  vote  is  taken  in  the 

13  Scharf  and  Westcott  's  ' '  History  of  Philadelphia, ' '  vol.  iii,  p.  1923. 

"  Quigg  V.  Tracy,  104  Pa,  St.  Eep.,  493-498. 

isPawlet  V.  Clark,  9  Cranch  U.  S.,  292-326;  3d  Leg.  Ed.,  735. 

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convention  ''by  orders,"  and  a  majority  of  the  clergy  and  a 
majority  of  the  laity,  and,  in  some  cases,  the  consent  of  the 
bishop,  is  necessary  to  the  approval  of  the  proposed  action. 
The  recognition  of  the  rights  of  the  laity  was,  from  its  organi- 
zation, insisted  upon  by  the  American  Church. 

In  May,  1783,  the  Rev.  William  Smith,  D.D.,  lately  provost 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  then  president  of 
Washington  College,  Maryland,  called  a  convention  of  the 
Maryland  clergy  for  the  purpose  of  organizing  the  American 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  that  State.  At  the  conven- 
tion of  June  following.  Dr.  Smith  was  chosen  bishop  of  Mary- 
land, but,  as  the  election  was  not  approved  by  many,  nor 
endorsed  by  the  General  Convention  of  1786,  he  was  not  ele- 
vated to  the  episcopate.  He  was,  however,  a  learned  theo- 
logian and  leader  of  men  and  of  the  Southern  churches,  a  dele- 
gate to  and  several  times  president  of  the  General  Conven- 
tions. To  him  is  owed  the  name,  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church. 

Agreeable  to  appointment,  the  first  General  Convention  met 
at  Christ  Church,  on  St.  Michael's  Day,  September  27,  1785. 
It  should  have  consisted  of  clerical  and  lay  delegates  from  the 
thirteen  United  States.  Massachusetts,  however,  sent  a  letter 
but  no  delegate,  and  Connecticut  declined  to  participate.  Dr. 
White  was  chosen  president.  Three  plans  of  organization  had 
previously  been  considered:  the  New  England  idea  was  the 
primitive  doctrine  and  Apostolic  order;  the  Middle  Colonies 
wanted  a  national  church,  "to  be  to  all  its  members  what  the 
Federal  government,  then  in  process  of  construction,  would  be 
to  its  citizens ; ' '  Maryland  and  Virginia  desired  to  secure  the 
endowments  and  create  an  organization  which  would  be 
recognized  by  law  in  the  new  government.  Doctor  White 
advocated  the  Federal  plan.  The  Federal  Constitution  had 
not  been  formed,  but  the  organization  adopted  was  national 

103 


in  its  scope,  in  that  it  was  formed  by  the  States  and  composed 
of  two  orders,  clergy  and  laity,  each  State  being  sovereign  as 
to  its  religious  affairs.  A  Triennial  Convention  was  pro- 
vided, of  which  the  Bishops  should  be  ex-officio  members. 
A  liturgy  was  also  provided,  which  was  substantially  the 
English  prayer-book  modified  to  conform  to  the  new  condi- 
tions. The  modifications  were  not  radical,  generally  speak- 
ing, but  modifications  of  form,  natural  omissions  relating  to 
the  King  and  Royal  Family,  and  some  small  changes  in 
doctrine. 

The  Archbishops  and  Bishops  of  England,  as  represent- 
ing the  Mother  Church,  were  then  addressed  and  requested 
to  consecrate  such  Bishops  as  the  Convention  might  nominate. 
This  the  English  authorities  refused  until  after  the  Conven- 
tion held  at  Wilmington,  Delaware,  in  October,  1786,  when, 
learning  that  the  power  of  the  laity  was  not  aggressive,  that 
the  Nicene  and  Apostles'  creeds  were  unchanged,  and  that 
the  English  prayer-book  had  not  been  repudiated,  they  con- 
sented to  consecrate  as  Bishops,  William  White  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  Samuel  Provoost  of  New  York, 

The  second  General  Convention  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
was  held  at  Christ  Church,  September  14,  1786,  and  it  was 
at  this  time  that  the  Reverend  William  White  was  chosen 
Bishop.  Dr.  Magaw  and  his  assistant.  Dr.  Pilmore,  were  both 
present  and  voted  for  him.  After  consecration  in  the  arch- 
episcopal  palace  chapel,  Lambeth,  England,  February  4,  1787, 
Bishop  White  returned  to  Philadelphia,  where,  on  May  28, 
he  held  the  first  ordination  in  Christ  Church,  admitting  Mr. 
Joseph  Clarkson  to  the  deaconate.  Dr.  Magaw  preached  the 
ordination  sermon,  a  printed  copy  of  which  is  preserved  in 
the  Loganian  Library.  In  the  dedication  to  Bishop  White, 
the  author  alluded  to  the  greatness  of  the  occasion  which 
required  its  delivery  and,  in  concluding  his  discourse,  said :  "  a 

104 


BORN  1748 
PA.   B.  A.   1765. 
DEACON  1770-1772. 

FROM   A  COPY   IN   POSSESSION  OF  N0RRI6  8.    BARRATT. 


ASSISTANT   MINISTER    1772-1779. 
RECTOR   1779-1836. 
BISHOP  OF   PENNSYLVANIA   1787-1836. 


Witctotfi^ip  ot  SDr.  iSl^asab) 


new  era  hath  opened  in  our  church  that  will  be  remembered 
forever.  Our  Episcopal  system  is  completed;  the  first  fruits 
of  so  distinguished  an  event  come  forward  on  the  present  day. 
I  join  with  thousands  to  meet  and  welcome  the  blessing." 

The  General  Convention  of  1789 — the  First  General  Con- 
vention of  the  United  Protestant  Episcopal  Church — met,  for 
eight  days,  in  the  Assembly  Room  of  Independence  Hall,  by 
the  consent  of  Thomas  Miflflin,  Esqr.,  President  of  the  State, 
and  during  its  session  there,  occurred  the  union  of  the 
churches  of  New  England  with  those  of  the  Middle  and 
Southern  States.  The  House  of  Bishops,  as  a  separate  body, 
was  formed,  the  first  President  bishop  (Bishop  Seabury) 
elected,  the  Constitution  of  the  Church  agreed  upon,  and  the 
Prayerbook,  in  its  present  form,  adopted.^^ 

The  first  convention  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Pennsyl- 
vania met  at  Christ  Church,  May  23,  1785,  and  formed  an  act 
of  association  of  the  clergy  and  congregations  in  the  State. 
The  delegates  from  St.  Paul's  were  Plunket  Fleeson,  John 
Wood  and  Andrew  Doz.  Of  the  first  twenty-nine  annual 
diocesan  conventions,  all  but  one  were  held  in  Christ  Church, 
and  that,  the  Fourth,  was  held  in  St.  Paul's,  20  May,  1788. 

Dr.  Magaw,  although  not  a  Freemason,  was  held  in  high 
esteem  by  that  body,  so  much  so  that,  it  printed  his  sermons 
delivered  in  St.  Paul 's  before  the  fraternity,  viz. : — on  the 
anniversary  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist,  December  27,  1783,^^^* 
and  dedicated  to  Chevalier  de  Luzerne,  the  French  Minister 
to  the  United  States,  as  well  as  that  delivered  in  1793. 

On  St.  John's  Day,  Friday,  December  27,  1793,  Dr.  Magaw 
preached  a  charity  sermon  at  St.  Paul's  Church,  his  subject 
being,  ** Things  Lovely  and  of  Good  Report,"  before  the 
Grand  and  Subordinate  Lodges  of  Freemasons  for  the  pur- 

15  See  Appendix  E,  pp.  214-215. 

15a  Freemasonry  in  Pennsylvania,  Barratt-Sachee,  vol.  ii,  pp.  196,  130, 
67-8. 

105 


^tieitor^  ot  &t  ^aviV0  episcopal  C|^urc| 

pose  of  increasing  the  Relief  Fund.  There  is  a  well  founded 
tradition  that  President  Washington  was  present^®^  upon  this 
occasion  and  that  he  gave  ample  contribution  to  this  fund. 
This  latter  fact  is  proven  by  the  following  minute  in  the 

'  "  St.  John's  Day^  December, 

"  Grand  Lodge  27th,  1793. 

''' Resolved,  that  Bros.  [Thomas]  Procter  and  [John]  Poor  be 
requested  to  wait  upon  his  Excellency,  Bro  George  Washington,  with 
the  Compliments  of  the  Day,  and  respectful  Thanks  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  for  his  generous  Donation  to  the  Poor." 

The  following  Masonic  prayer  was  made  by  Rev.  Dr.  Magaw 

before  his  sermon  at  St.  Paul 's : 

"  0  Thou  who  sittest  between  the  Cherubims !  eternal  in  excellency ! 
and  builder  of  all  worlds!  Wisdom,  strength  and  beauty  dwell  with 
thee !  Thy  being  we  adore !  Thy  works  we  view  with  wonder !  and  in 
the  midst  of  these,  the  pillars  of  thy  Temple,  we  trace  the  Stately 
footsteps  of  the  Great  I  Am!  May  the  proportion,  order  and  ar- 
rangement, there  so  brightly  visible,  convey  an  assimilating  influence 
to  the  temple  of  human  minds! 

"  Center  of  Happiness !  from  whom  we  have  turned  away — "  Raise 
up,  we  pray  thee,  thy  power,  and  come  among  us."  R^new  that 
sweet  attraction,  by  which  we  shall  again,  come  near  to  thee;  and 
live,  and  move,  and  duly  act,  in  the  honorable  places  thou  didst 
assign  us  from  the  beginning. 

"  Source  of  Light !  destroy  the  covering  of  darkness,  cast  over  so 
many  faces!  Send  thy  purifying  radiance  that  we  may  be  light  in 
thee!  By  the  leading  of  thy  truth,  as  by  the  kindly  star  in  yonder 


16a  Ordinarily,  when  in  Philadelphia,  Washington  attended  Christ 
Church,  though  a  letter  from  Bishop  White  of  August  15,  1835,  is  the 
evidence  upon  which  Washington's  attendance  at  St.  Peter's  clearly 
rests.  ' '  During  the  war, ' '  writes  the  good  Bishop,  ' '  whenever  he  was  in 
this  city,  and  since,  having  rented  a  house  near  my  other  Church  (St. 
Peter's)  has  attended  there."  "Saint  Peter's  Sesquicentennial  Year 
Book,"  p.  xl. 

For  Bishop  White  on  Washington's  religious  character,  see  dedication 
of  a  sermon,  from  Deut.  xxxiii,  27,  published  Feb.,  1795;  and  sermon 
preached  Dec,  1799,  after  Washington's  decease;  also,  Address  from 
the  Episcopal  Church  to  President  Washington  after  his  first  election, 
printed  in  the  Journal;  White's  "Memoirs  ";  Wilson's  Life  of,  p.  190 
et  seq. 

106 


PRAYER, 

DELIVERED  iir  St.  PAUL'*  CHURCH 

PHILADELPHIA, 

On  WEDNESDAY,    2'jth  December^    1786. 

B  E  1  N  O      T  H  e 

Anniverfary  of  St  John  the 
Evangelist; 

AFTER  THE   PROPER  DIVINE  SERVICE  OP  THE  DAT, 

Aid  hfort  the  SERMON 

TO  THE  HONORABLE  FRATERNITY  OP 

The  Free  and  Accepted  Masoks 
0/  PENNSYLVANIA. 

By  Da.  M  A  G  A  W. 


PHILADELPHIA: 
Printed     by     E  L  E  A  Z  E  R     OSWALD, 

AT    THE    CoFFEE-HouSE. 
M,DCC,LXXXVII. 

Facsimile  of  Title  Page  of  Prayer,  1786. 
107 


A   SERMON, 

BBLIVSBSP       IB 

St.  Paulas  Church,  Philaoelphea* 

OntheajthofDsesuBss,  1793  s 

BE  I  N  o 

St.  John  the  Evangelist's  Day; 

IN    THE    PAESENCB    09 

The^nnitiCoDse  of  ^rmtfplbsni^ 

VO   VRZCM    IS    VftEFZxio 

A  Prayer,  befoxe  the  Sermon* 

Futlijhcd  ei  their  Repttfi^ 


Ftotcd  by  e.^JftDalU,  No.  156,  Market- 

Street)  South,  between  Fourth  &  Filth^Strects. 

M,DCC,XCIV. 

Facsimile  of  Title  Page  to  Sermon,  1793. 


108 


JXtctot^^ip  o(  Sdc.  iSt^asato 


East,  manifest  the  EVERLASTING  WORD!  Shew  us  the  bright- 
ness of  the  Father's  glory. 

"God  of  Love!  who  has  made  it  divinely  known,  that  all  our  do- 
ings, without  charity,  are  nothing  worth,  pour  into  our  hearts  that 
most  perfect  gift,  the  very  bond  of  purified  communications,  and  of 
all  the  virtues !  Impart  to  us  the  spirit  that  should  endure ;  the  graces 
that  should  adorn;  the  skill  that  should  accomplish  workmen^  who 
need  not  be  ashamed — Give  the  generous  wish — the  feeling  heart; 
and,  when  there  is  opportunity,  the  liberal  hand ! 

"  Father  of  All!  who  are  no  respector  of  persons — ere  long,  may 
every  kindred  and  people,  from  the  east,  and  from  the  west,  from 
the  north  and  from  the  south,  see  thy  great  salvation !  and  be  asso- 
ciated into  one  brotherhood — and  their  symbol,  and  their  name,  be 
one!  Reveal  over  the  whole  earth,  the  mystery  hid  from  ages — the 
decree  of  deliverance  through  SHILOH,  who  is  come! 

"  Bountiful  sovereign !  bestow  furtherance  and  blessing  upon  all 
who  breathe  benevolence,  and  strive  to  dwell  together  in  unity!  Re- 
fresh them  as  with  the  dew  of  Hermon!  Enrich  them  as  with  the  gold 
of  Ophir!  Put  on  them  beautiful  gannents!  and  let  them  be  all- 
glorious  within! 

"  Infinite  of  Goodness !  Friend  of  Man !  Countenance,  in  particu- 
lar, thy  servants  here  present  on  this  occasion — persons  of  various 
orders,  and  several  denominations;  yet  declaring  to  consent  in  this 
one  business — to  love  one  another,  and  to  do  extensive'  offices  of 
kindness^,  Preserve  unbroken,  this  ancient  bond!  Brighten  this 
chain  of  venerable  friendship!  Keep  them,  from  the  evil  that  is  in 
the  world!  Suffer  them  not  to  touch  an  unhallowed  thing,  nor  con- 
fushion  to  mar  their  work!  May  all  the  building,  fitly  framed  to- 
gether, grow  unto  an  holy  temple  in  the  Lord." 

"  Send  them,  this  day  with  their  companions  numerous  and  true, 
as  favorable  angels,  to  soften  the  distress  of  thy  poor;  to  reach  some 
clothing  to  the  shivering  naked;  to  deal  their  bread  to  the  hungry;  to 
comfort  the  destitute,  the  languishing,  and  the  sorrowful;  to  save 
them,  from  perishing! 

"  As  long  as  there  is  one  afflicted  traveler  in  the  world's  wildness, 
let  there  not  be  wanting  many  of  these  good  Samaritans ! 

"  And  now  while  we  thank  thee,  0  liberal  Bestower  of  favors !  that 
the  voice  of  gladness  and  health  is  restored  to  so  many  of  our  dwell- 
ings, we  ask  these  further  gifts,  to  crown  our  happiness.  The  tend- 
erest  feeling  of  our  neighbor's  woe;  the  grace  and  generosity  to 
share  in  others  sorrows,  as  well  as  joys;  the  will  and  the  ability  to 
show  we  love  as  brethren! 

109 


^i0tot]f  ot  &t  ^mV0  episcopal  Cl^utcl^ 

"  That,  as  shrines  in  some  venerable  sanctuary,  every  association 
among  them  may  be  holiness  unto  the  Lord:  that  these  states  may 
prosper,  and  all  the  people  praise  thee — ^be  pleased,  thou  Lover  of 
Concord!  to  continue  our  National  Confederacy:  May  its  glory  still 
appear:  and  the  goodly  fellowship  pass  along  with  increasing  char- 
acter of  Millions  yet  unborn. 

"May  all  that  can  make  great  and  free,  and  happy,  distinguish 
the  land  we  live  in!  Let  it  be  blessed  of  the  Most  High,  for  the 
precious  things  of  the  earth,  and  fulness  thereof.  Let  our  men,  be 
[not]  few,  nor  unacceptable  to  their  brethren!  May  our  sons  grow 
up  as  the  young  plants,  and  our  daughters  be  as  the  polished  comers 
of  the  Temple ! 

"  May  the  lamp  of  Science  bum  clear  in  these  climes  of  freedom ; 
and  our  Golden  Candlesticks  never  be  removed!  May  wisdom  com- 
petent to  every  exigency,  and  fortitude  superior  to  danger,  may 
incurruptible  fidelity  and  care  to  execute  the  trust  committed  to  them 
inspire  our  Civil  Rulers,  and  all  the  Representatives  of  the  people. — 

"  Finally — That  we  may  remain  the  objects  of  thy  loving  kind- 
ness— a  People  whom  the  Lord  Jehovah  will  defend  and  prosper;  and 
whose  posterity  he  will  be  in  the  midst  of  forever;  May  pure  Reli- 
gion and  such  unblemished  manners  as  will  shed  a  dignity  on  our 
Christian  calling,  prevail  among  us! — 

"  And  may  the  glory  of  the  latter  House  be  greater  than  the  for- 
mer; and  in  this  place  may  the  Lord  of  Hosts  give  harmony  and 
peace. — As  long  as  the  Sun  and  Moon  shall  endure,  through  our  only 
mediator  and  advocate  Christ  Jesus — "^^ 

For  many  years,  in  Philadelphia,  the  anniversary  of  Wash- 
ington's  birth  had  been  made  the  occasion  of  formal  demon- 
stration by  groups  of  patriotic  societies.  The  city  dancing 
assembies  in  1791,  and  subsequent  years,  gave  balls,  and  the 
militia  paraded  and  banquetted.  Among  the  last  Acts  of 
Congress  vs^hile  in  Philadelphia,  was  a  resolution  recommend- 
ing that  the  Twenty-second  of  February,  1800,  should  be 
observed  throughout  the  United  States,  as  a  day  set  apart  for 
exercises  to  express  the  popular  esteem  for  the  virtues  of 
Washington.  In  accordance  with  this  suggestion,  as  Wash- 
ington was  a  member  of  the  craft,  the  Freemasons  of  Phila- 

17  "Freemasonry  in  Pennsylvania,"  Barratt  and  Sachse,  vol.  ii,  p.  193. 

110 


JSitctotfi'^ip  ot  SDr.  Sl^asah) 


delphia,  viz.:  The  French  Lodge  L'Amenite,  No.  73,  Bro. 
Joseph  E.  G.  M.  de  la  Grange,  Master;  Philadelphia  Lodge, 
No.  72,  Brother  Christian  Sheetz,  Master;  Orange  Lodge, 
No.  71,  Brother  William  Nelson,  Master;  Concordia  Lodge, 
No.  67,  Brother  Henry  Voigt,  Master  pro  tern;  Washington 
Lodge,  No.  59,  Brother  John  Mcllwee,  Master;  Harmony 
Lodge,  No.  52,  Brother  George  Springer,  Master;  Lodge  No. 
19,  Brother  Captain  John  Coyle,  Master;  Lodge  No.  9, 
Brother  Captain  Andrew  Nilson,  Master;  Lodge  No.  3, 
Brother  Colonel  John  Baker,  Master  pro  tem,  and  Lodge  No. 
2,  Brother  Colonel  John  Phillips,  Master,  assembled  at  their 
hall  at  the  State-House  on  that  day,  and  from  there  marched 
to  Zion  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church,  southeast  corner 
Fourth  and  Cherry  Streets.  An  appropriate  sermon  was 
delivered  to  the  fraternity  by  Mr.  Magaw.  "The  pathetic 
and  elegant  oration"  was  subsequently  printed. 

Others  of  his  sermons  reached  publication,  among  which 
may  be  mentioned:  "A  Discourse  Occasioned  by  the  mournful 
catastrophe  through  Fire  which  overwhelmed  and  Destroyed 
Mr.  Andrew  Brown,^^  his  Wife  and  Three  Children  Deliv- 
ered in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Sunday  Afternoon  February  5, 
1797."  Printed  by  Ormrod  &  Conrad,  41  Chestnut  Street,  For 
the  Benefit  of  the  two  Young  Women,^*  Mr.  Brown's  domes- 
tics sufferers  by  the  Fire.^^  Also,  A  Discourse,  Delivered  in 
Christ  Church,  on  the  Decease  of  Mrs.  Mary  White,  consort  of 
the  Reverend  William  White,  D.D.,  December  17,  1797.  The 
subject  touching  the  resurrection  of  the  dead.^^ 

18  Founder  and  editor  of  the  Federal  Gazette,  the  only  newspaper  to 
remain  in  the  city  during  the  yellow-fever  epidemic  of  1793.  Mr.  Brown 
and  family  were  buried  in  St.  Paul 's  ground. 

18  A  copy  of  this  publication  is  owned  by  The  Historical  Society  of 
Pennsylvania. 

20  See  Dr.  Benjamin  Bush's  "Memoirs,"  p.  154,  for  account  of  thiB 
fire,  as  well  as  the  appendix  to  the  published  sermon. 

21  See  Elizabeth  Drinker 's  ' '  Journal, ' '  p.  332. 

Ill 


Dr.  Magaw  married  before  25  December,  1775,  Lucia  Doz, 
daughter  of  Andrew  Doz,  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's,  by  bis  wife 
Rebecca  Cash.  Mrs.  Magaw  died  in  July,  1790.  The  discourse, 
at  her  death,  was  printed--  at  the  request  of  Mr.  Magaw. 

The  death  of  Dr.  Magaw  occurred,  as  before  stated,  Decem- 
ber 1,  1812.  His  funeral  took  place  from  the  residence  of 
Dr.  Pilmore,  No.  171  South  Fifth  Street. 

22  "A  Discourse,  Delivered  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia,  Sunday, 
July  25,  1790,  On  Occasion  of  the  Death  of  Mrs.  Lucia  Magaw,  wife  of 
the  Eev.  Samuel  Magaw,  D.D.,  and  now  published  at  his  Bequest,  by 
Joseph  Bend,  A.M.,  Assistant  Minister  of  Christ  Church  and  St.  Peter's, 
Phila.  Printed  by  William  Young,  bookseller,  at  the  corner  of  Second 
and  Chestnut  Streets,  1790.  Copy  of,  to  be  found  in  The  Historical  So- 
ciety of  Pennsylvania. 


112 


REV.    JOSEPH     PILMORE,     D.  D. 


BORN    ENGLAND,    OCTOBER    3.     1733  ; 
DIED    PHILADELPHIA,    JULY    24,    1825,    AND    BURIED    IN    ST.    PAUL'S    CHURCH    NEAR    THE    COMMUNION    TABLE. 


FROM   COPY   ID    POSSESSION   OF   NORRIS  S.    BA 


THE  RECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  PILMORE 

1804-1821 

HE  Reverend  Joseph  Pilmore,  D.D.,  assistant  min- 
d  ^  ister,  January  17,  1789,  to  February,  1794 ;  rector 

■     I  from  March  5,  1804,  to  February  5,  1821,  was 

^^^J/  born  October  31,  1739,^  in  the  village  of  Tad- 
mouth,  in  Yorkshire,  England,  and  died  in  Phila- 
delphia, July  24,  1825.  His  parents  were  members  of  the 
Church  of  England,  but  he,  as  a  lad  of  sixteen,  formed  the 
acquaintance  of  the  Reverend  John  Wesley,  then  travelling 
through  England  and  was  by  him  eventually  drawn  into  the 
ministry. 

Educated  at  Wesley's  famous  Kingswood  School,  he  was 
universally  admitted  to  have  been  not  only  a  man  of  consid- 
erable learning,  but  of  great  force  of  character.  Completing 
his  studies,  he  attached  himself  to  the  Society  of  Methodists 
for  which  he  was  appointed  to  teach  and  preach,  and  did  so 
in  England,  Scotland,  Ireland  and  Wales  for  several  years. 
The  narrative  of  his  labors  in  South  Wales,  performed  partly 
in  company  with  John  Wesley,  in  1767  and  1768,  contains  a 
graphic  account  of  the  religious  state  of  that  territory,  with 
notices  of  ancestral  castles  and  natural  curiosities,  the  whole 
illustrative  of  the  early  history  of  Methodism. 

1  Appleton  's  ' '  Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biography, ' '  vol.  v,  pp.  20-1. 
9  113 


At  a  conference  at  Leeds,  England,  in  1769,  Richard  Board- 
man  and  Joseph  Pilmore  offered  themselves  to  Wesley  for  work 
as  missionaries  in  America.  They  landed  at  Gloucester  Point, 
New  Jersey,  October  24,  1769,  and  Mr.  Pilmore  preached  from 
Maine  to  Georgia  at  a  time  when  travel  was  most  difficult, 
and  often  only  possible  by  coasting  vessels  or  on  horse  back. 
His  objective  mission  was  to  establish  Methodism  in  Phila- 
delphia. Upon  his  arrival  at  Philadelphia,  in  October,  1769,^ 
he  preached  from  the  state-house  steps,  from  stands  in  race 
fields,  rode  the  circuit  with  his  library  in  his  saddle  bags, 
held  the  first  Methodist  meeting  at  an  inn  in  Loxley's  Court, 
and  established  and  dedicated  St.  George's  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church,  on  the  east  side  of  Fourth  Street  near  Vine 
Street,  and  had  the  honor  of  having  been  its  first  pastor.  In 
1777-1778,  when  the  British  army  occupied  Philadelphia,  St. 
George's  Church  was  used  as  a  cavalry  riding  school.  From 
it  has  sprung,  directly  or  indirectly,  all  the  Methodist  churches 
in  Philadelphia,  and  it  is,  to-day,  the  oldest  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church  in  continuous  use  in  the  world. 

Mr.  Pilmore,  affectionately  called  Father  Pilmore,  came 
upon  a  mission  from  Wesley,  and  it  must  not  be  forgotten 
that,  at  this  period  Methodism  was  a  missionary  movement  in 
the  Church  of  England.  It  did  not  become  an  independent 
church  until  after  the  celebrated  meeting  of  Thomas  Coke  and 
Francis  Asbury,  at  Barratt's  Chapel  in  Kent  County,  Dela- 

2  Mr.  Pilmore  wrote  from  Philadelphia  to  Mr.  Wesley,  October  31,  1769, 
as  follows: 

"Eeverend  Sir: 

"We  are  safely  arrived  here  after  a  tedious  passage  of  nine  weeks. 
I  have  preached  several  times  and  the  people  flock  to  hear  in  multitudes. 
Sunday  evening  I  went  out  on  the  Common.  I  had  the  stage  appointed 
for  the  horse-race  for  my  pulpit,  and  I  think,  between  four  and  five  thou- 
sand hearers,  who  heard  with  attention,  still  as  night.  The  people  in  gen- 
eral like  to  hear  the  word  and  seem  to  have  some  idea  of  Salvation  by 
grace. ' ' 

114 


Witctot0^ip  ot  2Dr.  pilmoce 


ware,  in  November,  1784,^  when  the  preliminaries  were 
arranged  that  were  subsequently  adopted  by  the  Christmas 
conference  at  Baltimore,  under  which  the  Methodist  Church 
was  organized  as  it  exists  to-day.  By  nine  months  it  antedated 
the  formal  organization  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
elsewhere  alluded  to.  The  separation  was  caused  by  the  great 
error  of  Lowth,  Bishop  of  London,  who  refused  Wesley's  re- 
quest to  ordain  at  least  two  clergymen  who  could  administer 
the  sacraments  in  America,  with  the  result  that,  the  Church  of 
England  lost  one  hundred  thousand  of  its  most  active  members, 
at  a  time  they  could  be  illy  spared.  One  difficulty,  perhaps  the 
greatest,  was  the  union  of  Church  and  State,  so  opposed  by 
Americans,  which  made  it  impossible  for  the  English  state 
church  to  ordain  those  who  would  not  swear  allegiance  to  the 
British  Crown. 

In  or  about  1774,  Mr.  Pilmore  was  appointed  by  Mr.  Wesley 
to  missionary  work  in  Ireland,  with  principal  charge  of  the 
churches.  Having  labored  there  some  years  he  was  sent  to 
Scotland,  and  while  in  Scotland  came  into  personal  relations 
with  Samuel  Seabury,*  then,  or  about  to  be.  Bishop  of  Con- 
necticut with  the  result  that,  he  sought  orders  in  the  Protes- 
tant Episcopal  Church,  and  was  ordained  deacon  by  Bishop 
Seabury,  November  27,  1785,  and  advanced  to  the  priesthood, 
two  days  later,  by  the  same  bishop.  Shortly  afterward,  he  be- 
came rector  of  the  three  united  parishes  of  Trinity,  Oxford, 
All  Saint's,  Lower  Dublin  and  St.  Thomas,  Whitemarsh,  in 
the  vicinity  of  Philadelphia.  A  copy  of  a  rare  print  of  him, 
engraved  by  Charles  Wilson  Peale,  in  1787,  is  here  inserted, 
together  with  fac-simile  of  title  page  of  his  Charity  Sermon 
at  St.  Paul's,  December  27,  1786. 

His  zeal  as  a  priest  and  popularity  as  a  preacher  led  to  his 

3  Ante,  Note  4,  p.  98. 

*Foulson's  American  Daily  Advertiser,  July  30,  1825. 

115 


appointment  as  assistant  minister  at  St.  Paul's,  in  January, 
1789,  in  which  capacity  he  remained  until  February,  1794. 
In  the  latter  year  he  received  and  accepted  a  call  to  Christ 
Church,  then  a  new  church,  in  New  York  City,  where  he 
labored  acceptably  ten  years.  At  the  end  of  this  decade  of 
service  he  returned  to  St.  Paul's,  to  the  rectorate  of  which 
he  had  been  elected  March  5,  1804.  His  withdrawal  from  St. 
Paul's  to  New  York  was  a  grief  to  many.  "There  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  who  had  been  converted  under  his  early 
ministry  in  his  native  country  and  had  followed  him  to  this 
adopted  land ;  there  were  others,  who  had  been  brought  by  his 
instrumentality  to  the  knowledge  of  the  truth  while  he  was  a 
Methodist  preacher  in  this  City;  besides  very  many  to  whom 
his  word  had  been  made  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation  while 
he  ministered  in  St.  Paul's  Church.  These  circumstances 
formed  [between  pastor  and  people]  the  peculiar  and  most- 
tender  bond  of  gospel  love."^ 

At  the  beginning  of  his  official  connection  with  St.  Paul's, 
his  first  residence  was  near  Poole's  Bridge,  in  the  upper  part 
of  Second  Street.  After  his  marriage  he  lived  in  a  very  plain 
three-story  brick  house,  on  the  east  side  of  Fifth  Street  mid- 
way between  Spruce  and  Pine  Streets,  and  standing  back 
ten  feet  from  the  street  line. 

While  assistant  to  Dr.  Magaw,  he  passed  through  the  yellow 
fever  scourge  of  1793  with  hazard  to  himself  and  great  use- 
fulness to  his  ministry  among  the  afflicted  people.  He  was 
indeed  attacked  by  the  disease  but  recovered.^  Many  of  St. 
Paul's  people  are  known  to  have  died  during  the  epidemic 

5  A  Sermon,  preached  at  the  Consecration  of  St.  Paul  'a  Church,  Phila- 
delphia, January  1,  1831.  B7  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  A.M.,  Eector  of  said 
Church.  Published  by  the  Vestry,  and  printed  by  WiUiam  Stavely,  No. 
99  South  Second  Street. 

6  Carey 's  ' '  Short  Account  of  the  Malignant  Fever,  Lately  Prevalent 
in  Philadelphia,"  etc.,  Phila.,  1793,  pp.  120,  Appendix  10. 

116 


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of  whose  burial  there  is  no  record.  The  following  received  the 
rights  of  sepulcher  in  its  churchyard,  with  the  committal  of 
its  clergy: 


Jane  Ameran 
John  Beaty 
John  Bright 's  son 
Benjamin  Bodger's  son 
William  Cameron 
Mr.  Coxe's  son-in-law 
William  Gathers 
George  Claypoole 
William  Claypoole 's  child 

Cromwell's  wife 

James  Dogherty's  daughter 

John  Davis 

Mrs.  Davis 

Elizabeth  Davis 

Richard  Davy 

Joshua  Dawson's  child 

Mrs.  Duplessis 

David  Elders 

Edward  Edward's  son 

Thomas  Fenton,  Junr. 

Mrs.  Field 

Francis  Finley 

Mrs,  Fox's  son 

Dr.  Peter  Glenworth 

Mary  Godin 

Mrs.  Holmes 

George  Hinton 

Samuel  Johnston,  printer 

Mathias  Keen's  dau. 

Michael  Lewis'  son 

Edward  Langman 

Mrs.  Lohra 


Thomas  Lapsley's  wife  &  child 
Mrs.  Lane 
William  Morrison 
Michael  Murphy's  daughter 
James  MoUeneaux's  daughter 
Mrs.  Muskitts 
....  Musketts 
Francis  Marey 
Joseph  Norman's  wife 
Matthew  Parker  and  son 
Mrs.  Parker 
Benjamin  Pitfield 
William  Purvis'  wife 
Abraham  Robinson 
William  Stiles  and  his  appren- 
tice, stone-cutters 
William  Stiles,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Stiles 
Ashfield  Stevenson 
Mrs.  Stevenson's  daughter 
Captain  Strong's  daughter 
Faucis  Shafner's  wife 
Christopher  Search 
Zachariah  Thomas 
Zachariah  Thorn 
Andrew  Tennick's  wife 
John  Warton 

Joseph  Whitehead  and  child 
John  Wood,  watchmaker 
Leighton  Wood's  wife 
Ann  Wilson 
Joseph  Wright's  wife 


It  was  at  this  time  that  the  great  philanthropist,  Stephen 
Girard,  distinguished  himself  in  ministering  to  his  stricken 
fellow  citizens.  Girard  attended  services  at  St.  Paul's  occa- 
sionally and  was  there  married,  June  6,  1777,  to  Mary  Lum. 

Situated  in  the  principal  residential  section  of  the  city,  the 

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Church  had  as  neighbors  during  the  constructive  period  of 
the  nation's  history,  many  of  the  makers  thereof.  James 
Wilson  lived  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Third  and  Walnut 
Streets,  called  Fort  Wilson  during  the  riots  of  1779.  Alex- 
ander Hamilton  occupied  No.  79,  South  Third  Street,  a  part 
of  the  present  building  of  the  Insurance  Company  of  North 
America.  Robert  Morris  dispensed  hospitality  at  Sixth  Street 
and  High,  now  Market,  Street,  with  Washington  next  door. 
Dr.  Edmund  Physick  practiced  his  profession  from  the  fine 
square  building  on  the  east  side  of  Fourth  Street  near 
Spruce,  still  in  the  occupancy  of  a  descendant.  The  Samuel 
Powel  house,  where  Washington  "dined  and  drank  tea,"  was 
at  244  (new  number)  South  Third  Street;  and  that  of  Gen- 
eral John  Cadwalader,  ''whose  furniture  and  house  exceeded 
anything"  John  Adams  had  before  seen,  was  on  the  west 
«ide  of  Second  Street  below  Spruce,  opposite  Little  Dock 
Street,  in  the  garden  of  which,  running  to  Third  Street,  the 
famous  Silk  Stocking  Company  was  drilled.  But  the  list  is 
loo  long  to  further  enumerate. 

.Washington,  during  the  yellow  fever  period  of  1793,  lived 
in  Germantown,  on  the  west  side  of  Main  Street  opposite 
Market  Square,  and  again  in  the  summer  of  1794,  from  July 
until  late  in  September. 

Dr.  Pilmore's  second  priestly  relation  and  first  rectorship 
of  St.  Paul 's  was  a  marked  one,  ' '  as  the  popular  applause  and 
the  testimony  of  crowded  audiences  for  many  years  before  his 
death  loudly  proclaimeth. "  His  bearing  was  noble  and 
dignified,  his  countenance  intellectual  and  benignant,  and  his 
appearance  prepossessing.  His  preaching  was  fervid  and 
simple,  to  which  his  melodious  voice  and  effective  gestures 
gave  great  power. 

He  knew  every  member  of  his  congregation  personally, 

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frequently  visited  them  at  their  homes  and  was  regarded  by 
most  of  them  as  a  member  of  the  family.  One  of  his  con- 
temporaries said  of  him: 

"  Times  without  number  have  I  have  seen  him,  and  very  often  have 
I  heard  him  preach,  with  an  energy  peculiar  to  himself,  and  seen 
him  thump  his  chest  and  the  pulpit  cushion  vehemently.  His  ac- 
tion was  but  the  outpouring  of  his  spirit.  His  obvious  faihng  by 
the  advance  of  years  and  long  service  made  it  necessary  that  an  as- 
sistant should  be  provided,  and  to  this  end  the  Reverend  Benjamin 
Allen  was  selected. 

"  Still  the  old  gentleman  could  not  be  kept  out  of  the  pulpit  alto- 
gether, and  near  the  close  of  his  useful  life,  it  was  said  that  the 
sermon  was  pretty  much  the  same,  no  matter  what  was  the  text.  This 
resulted  not  from  want  of  energy,  but  from  manifest  failure  of  mem- 
ory." 

The  manuscript  archives  of  The  Historical  Society  of  Penn- 
sylvania contain  a  thin  octavo  volume,  titled  ''Book  of  Heads 
of  Sermons  with  the  Application,"  made  by  Dr.  Pilmore  in 
181 6.  From  this,  it  is  possible  to  know  something  of  the  kind 
of  spiritual  food  St.  Paul's  congregation  received  on  "Sunday 
afternoon,  June  9  " ;  * '  Sunday  morning,  June  30, "  or  "  Wed- 
nesday night  before  the  Communion,  July  3, ' '  1816,  etc. 

A  further  testimony  to  his  breadth  of  vision  and  methodical 
habit,  is  to  be  found  in  the  care  with  which  he  preserved  the 
list  of  marriages  performed  by  him,  and  transcribed  the 
same  into  the  "Records  of  St.  Paul's,"  with  the  preface: 
"Wishing  to  promote  order  and  peace  in  society,  I  have 
resolved  to  transcribe  from  my  private  register  a  list  of  all 
the  persons  whom  I  have  joined  in  matrimony  in  Phila- 
delphia."^ 

The  greatest  service  rendered  by  Dr.  Pilmore  to  St.  Paul's 
was,  perhaps,  the  creation  of  its  Sunday-school.  His  spiritual 
eyes  had  caught  the  vision  of  the  serried  host  of  youth  drawn 

7  " Pennsylvania  Archives,"  second  series,  vol.  ix,  pp.  462-469,  482-494. 

120 


SERMON, 

FREACHED  in  St.  PAULS  CHtJRCH 

PHILADELPHIA, 

On  WEDNESDAY,    vith^   December^    172^. 

BEING     THE 

Anniverfary  of  St.   JOHN   the 

Evangelist  : 

FOR  THE  RELIEF  OF  THE  POOR  : 

BEFORE  THE  HONOURABLE  FRATERNITY  OF 

The  FREE  AND  ACCEPTE  D    MASONS 

Of  PENNSYLJ^ANIA, 

By  the  Rev.     JOSEPH      PILMORE, 

Rfftor  of  the  united  Churches  of  Trinity,  St.  Thomas,  and  All-Sainu. 

H    C>lAAAE/vOrA    MEMETfl 

N    E    W  -r    0     R    K: 

PRINTED   AND    SOLD    BY    "WILLIAM    DUREX.L,    AT. 

HIS   BOOK-STORE    AND    PRINTING-OFFICE 

NO.    19,    aUEEN-STREET. 

MjDCC,XCin. 

Facsimile  of  Title  Page  of  Sermon,  1786. 
121 


heavenward  by  this  agency,  his  spiritual  ears  had  heard  the 
echoes  of  the  hymns  of  praise  that  would  resound  through  its 
halls  in  the  coming  years,  and  by  faith  he  furthered  with  his 
strength  the  effort  to  begin  at  this  church,  the  first  Episcopal 
Sunday-school  in  Philadelphia,  indeed,  in  this  land.^ 

Possessed  of  a  sympathetic  soul  and  much  experience  as  a 
traveller,  he  was  the  instrument  of  helpfulness  to  many  of 
his  countrymen  in  Philadelphia,  in  consideration  of  which 
the  Society  of  the  Sons  of  St.  George  elected  him  an  honorary 

8  Robert  Eaikes  [1735-1811]  a  publisher  and  philanthropist,  intro- 
duced the  first  Sunday-school  in  England  at  Gloucester  in  1780,  thirty- 
six  years  before,  but  Dr.  Julius  F.  Sachse  in  his  learned  history  "The 
Grerman  Sectaries  of  Pennsylvania"  [1900],  page  308,  states  that  "  the 
mystics  of  Cocalico  by  Brother  Obed  at  Ephrata  in  Pennsylvania  intro- 
duced the  Sabbath  school  system  forty  years  before  Raikes  gathered  the 
children  together  in  Gloucester,England.  The  honor  of  introducing  Sunday- 
schools  in  Philadelphia  belongs  to  the  Second  Presbyterian  Congregation, 
Northwest  corner  Third  and  Arch  Streets,  Philadelphia,  through  John  P. 
Bankson,  afterwards  of  St.  Paul 's,  and  to  Grand  Master  Samuel  F.  Brad- 
ford of  the  masonic  fraternity  who  was  also  a  member  of  that  congrega- 
tion, as  shown  by  the  following  minute  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, vol.  iii,  p.  377,  under  date  of  March  20,  1815,  viz.:  The  R.  W. 
Grand  Master  having  made  an  Address  on  the  Importance  of  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  School  for  Teaching  unlearned  Adults  to  read  the  Holy 
Scriptures,  It  was  On  Motion  made  and  Seconded, 

Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Officers,  Samuel  F.  Bradford,  R.  W.  Grand 
Master;  Walter  Kerr,  R.  "W.  Deputy  Grand  Master;  Bayse  Newcomb, 
Jr.,  Senior  Grand  Warden;  Joseph  Barnes,  R.  W.  Junior  Grand  War- 
den; George  A.  Baker,  E.  W.  Grand  Secretary;  Richard  Bache,  R.  W. 
Grand  Treasurer,  and  Four  other  Members  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  to  be 
appointed  by  the  Grand  Master,  be  a  Committee  to  establish  in  any 
Apartment  or  Apartments  of  the  Building  [Chestnut  St.  Hall],  Except- 
ing the  Grand  Lodge  room,  a  Sunday- School  for  the  teaching  unlearned 
Adults  to  read  the  Holy  Scripture  without  Note  or  commentary,  the 
Funds,  if  any  should  be  found  necessary,  to  be  raised  by  Voluntary  sub- 
scriptions among  the  Fraternity  or  other  Benevolently  disposed  persons, 
and  that  said  Committee  immediately  take  the  necessary  steps  to  carry 
this  resolution  into  effect. 

The  R.  W.  Grand  Master  was  pleased  to  Appoint  the  following 
'Brethren  to  compose,  in  conjunction  with  the  Grand  Officers,  the  above 
mentioned  Committee,  to  wit:  Andrew  M.  Prevost,  Peter  A.  Browne, 
Samuel  Lippinoott,  T.  and  Thomas  Entrikin. 

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1810. 


THE    CATHEDRA.  1916. 


Witctot^^ip  ot  2DC,  piltttote 


member,  April  23,  1791.  A  tribute  to  his  memory  was  deliv- 
ered before  the  Society  at  Head's  Mansion  House  Hotel, 
April  24,  1826,  which  in  part  described  him  as:  ''A  man  of 
vigorous  and  active  intellect,  .  .  .  and  one  of  the  most  zealous 
advocates  of  the  doctrines  and  discipline  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church.  Being  a  native  of  England,  he  uniformly 
maintained  and  cherished  an  ardent  attachment  to  its  gov- 
ernment, laws,  and  established  religion;  and  was  ever  ready 
to  assist  his  countrymen  when  involved  in  difficulties,  both 
with  his  counsel  and  purse.  .  .  .  Though  married,  yet  having 
no  children,  his  domestic  expenses  were  small,  and  he  was 
thereby,  through  the  exercise  of  temperance  and  frugality, 
'that  he  might  give  to  him  who  needed,'  enabled  to 
accumulate  a  very  handsome  independence,  with  a  consider- 
able portion  of  which  he  has  generously  endowed  our  chari- 
table institution." 

In  this  connection  it  should  be  said  that  the  good  doctor's 
will  provided  for  the  payment  of  certain  specified  legacies, 
and  that  the  residue  of  his  estate  should  be  divided  into  two 
parts,  one  half  towards  the  support  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  to  be  paid  to  the 
Treasurer  for  the  time  being.  The  other  half  to  the  Society 
of  the  Sons  of  St.  George,  established  in  Philadelphia  for  the 
advice  and  assistance  of  Englishmen  in  distress.  Richard 
North  and  John  Matthews,  Esqrs.,  vestrymen  of  St.  Paul's, 
were  made  executors.  Testator  and  executors  are  buried  at 
St.  Paul's,  the  former  within  the  church. 

The  University  of  Pennsylvania  conferred  upon  him  the 
degree  of  D.D.  in  1807.  He  published  The  Renovation  of 
Man.  Being  the  Substance  of  a  Sermon  Delivered  in  St. 
Paul's  Church  (Philadelphia,  1792)  ;  "Narrative  of  Labors 
in  South  Wales "  (Philadelphia,  1825),  and  left  in  manuscript, 

123 


^i^totjf  ot  &t  pauPiEf  (Episcopal  Cluttl 

an  account  of  his  ''Travels  and  Trials  and  Preaching"  in  vari- 
ous American  Colonies. 

He  is  said  to  have  been  twice  married  and  to  have  had  one 
child,  a  daughter,  who  died  in  her  minority.  About  1790,  in 
Philadelphia,  he  married  Mary  (Benezet)  Wood,  widow  of 
Joseph  "Wood,  formerly  of  Georgia,  and  daughter  of  Daniel 
Benezet,  Esq.,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  North.  Mrs.  Pilmore 
was  baptized  at  Christ  Church,  April  20,  1756,  and  died  at 
her  country-seat  in  Oxford  township  on  Friday,  July  1, 
]  808."    She  was  buried  in  Christ  Church  ground. 

Dr.  Pilmore  resigned  the  rectorate  of  St.  Paul's  in  1821, 
when  the  shadows  began  to  lengthen  quickly.  He  died  in  the 
eighty-sixth  year  of  his  age,  July  24,  1825,  honored  and  loved 
by  all  to  whom  he  was  known.  His  obituary,  in  the  Phila- 
delphia press,  said  in  conclusion: 

"His  labors  were  blessed  to  the  conversion  of  many.  He 
preached  the  Gospel  faithfully,  and  labored  zealously  for  the 
conversion  of  his  fellow  sinners;  very  many  of  whom  look  to 
him  as  their  spiritual  father.  He  has  gone  to  that  Master 
whom  he  remembered  when  almost  every  earthly  friend  was 
forgotten,  and  we  doubt  not  has  entered  into  that  rest  which 
remaineth  for  the  people  of  God."" 

10  Small 's  ' '  Genealogical  Eecords, ' '  Small,  Albright,  Latimer,  Benezet, 
etc.,  p.  211. 

^'i^ Paulson's  Daily  Advertiser,  July  30,  1825. 


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1821-1829. 


EECTORSHIP  OF  THE  EEV.  BENJAMIN  ALLEN 

1821-1829 

^I^M^^^   Keverend  Benjamin  Allen,  Jr.,   rector  from 
y  ^  I        August   27,    1821,    to    January,    1829,    born   at 
A     I  Hudson,  New  York,  September  29,  1789,  whither 

^^^^f  his  parents  had  but  lately  removed  from  Ehode 
Island,  died  at  sea,  January  13,  1829.  At  eleven 
years  of  age  he  left  school  and  entered  his  father's  store  as 
a  clerk.  Subsequently,  while  pursuing  his  studies  he  had 
charge  of  the  store  connected  with  the  Rensselaer  glass  fac- 
tory, in  Berlin,  Rensselaer  County,  near  Albany.  He  entered 
the  Hudson  Academy  under  Ashbel  Strong,  and  also  studied 
under  the  Reverend  Samuel  Blatchford,  D.D. 

Originally  a  Presbyterian,  he  became  a  churchman  through 
Bishop  Richard  Channing  Moore,  of  Virginia,  who  licensed 
him  as  a  lay  reader  to  Prince  William  and  Stafford  Counties, 
Virginia,  November  25,  1814.  Of  his  visit  to  the  saintly 
Reverend  William  Meade  at  Milwood,  Frederick,  now  Clarke 
County,  Virginia,  and  his  resulting  labors  in  Virginia  and 
elsewhere.  Bishop  Meade  has  given  a  pen  picture^  well 
worthy  of  reproduction : 

"  On  Christmas  eve,  in  the  year  1814,  a  little  after  dark,  there  en- 
tered into  my  house  a  gentleman  who  introduced  himself  to  me  as 

1  Meade 's  *  *  Old  Churches,  Ministers,  and  Families  of  Virginia, ' '  vol. 
ii,  pp.  304  et  seq. 

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Mr.  Allen,  from  New  York,  with  letters  of  introduction  from  Bishop 
Moore  and  Dr.  Wilmer,  certifying  that  he  was  a  candidate  for  Or- 
ders, and  wished  employment  as  a  lay-reader.  Although  the  roads 
were  in  their  worst  condition,  much  rain  having  fallen,  he  had  in  two 
short  days  walked  from  Alexandria  to  my  house,  about  sixty  miles. 
Carrying  him  with  me  to  the  Old  Chapel  [the  Bishop's  parish  church] 
the  next  day,  we  met  with  Mr.  Beverley  Whiting  and  his  sister  Miss 
Betsy,  from  Jefferson  county,  who  had,  as  they  and  others  near  them 
afterward  did,  come  about  fifteen  miles  to  church  through  bad  roads. 
Into  their  hands  I  consigned  Mr.  Allen,  on  a  horse  which  I  had  lent 
him.  In  just  two  weeks  he  returned  in  high  spirits.  He  had  itin- 
erated through  the  whole  of  Jefferson  and  Berkeley  Counties,  found 
out  all  the  principal  families  who  were  still  attached  to  Church,  es- 
tablished at  least  twelve  places  for  service,  and  received  a  kind  invi- 
tation from  Mr.  Whiting  and  his  sister  to  bring  his  little  family  to 
their  house  and  make  it  a  home  for  the  present.  To  Alexandria  he 
immediately  returned,  where  his  wife  and  infant  were,  and  without 
delay,  in  a  spell  of  bitter  cold  weather  in  the  month  of  January, 
brought  them  up  in  a  road-waggon  of  Mr.  Whiting's,  on  its  return 
from  Alexandria,  to  which  it  had  carried  a  load  of  flour.  Mr.  Whit- 
ing's was  his  home  for  a  considerable  time, — for  years  indeed;  and 
even  after  a  parsonage  was  provided  his  visits  to  that  abode  of  hos- 
pitality were  frequent  and  long.  From  this  time  until  the  year  1821 
with  feeble  health,  the  pressure  of  debt  upon  him,  and  a  growing  fam- 
ily, he  perhaps  rode  as  great  a  distance,  preached  as  often,  studied  his 
Bible  as  much,  and  prepared  as  many  things  for  the  press  as  any 
man  of  his  day.  No  one  had  a  better  opportunity  than  myself  of 
knowing  this,  for  I  had  often  to  go  the  rounds  with  him,  doing  more 
duty  from  necessity  than  I  ever  did  before  or  have  done  since. 
Sleeping  in  the  room  with  him,  often  have  I  seen  him  watch  the 
morning  light  with  his  little  Bible,  and  reading  it  when  others  were 
sleeping.  I  have  travelled  with  him,  and  seen  that  Bible,  or  some 
other  book,  in  his  hand  on  horseback,  and  during  any  little  spare 
time  in  private  hours  busy  with  his  pen  in  preparing  something  for 
the  press.  While  thus  itinerating  in  these  counties  and  also  in  the 
adjoining  county  in  IMaryland,  he  was  conducting  a  little  paper 
called  the  '  Layman's  Magazine,'  and  actually  abridged  and  published 
the  History  of  the  Reformation,  by  Burnet,  in  a  small  volume,  and 
compiled  a  history  of  the  whole  Church  in  two  octavo  volumes.  All 
this  he  did  while,  like  an  honest  man,  he  was  paying  his  debts  out  of 
a  small  salary  and  the  scanty  profits  of  these  publications,  if  indeed 

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there  were  any.  For  nine  years  he  thus  labored,  contracting  his 
sphere,  though  not  his  diligence,  by  the  introduction  of  one  or  two 
ministers  into  some  of  the  numerous  places  he  had  taken  in  charge, 
when  he  was  called  to  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia,  being  the 
next  choice  to  Bishop  Mcllvaine.  His  labours  in  such  a  congrega- 
tion and  city  were  of  course  not  diminished.  He  again  issued  a  re- 
ligious magazine,  and  engaged  in  every  plan  for  promoting  Sunday- 
schools,  infant  schools,  Bible  classes,  missionary  societies,  and  all 
such  things,  being  especially  interested  in  Bishop  Chase's  College  in 
Ohio.  His  house  was  the  Bishop's  home.  The  increase  of  Episcopal 
churches  in  Philadelphia  soon  attracted  his  mind.  At  a  time  when 
a  narrow  and  selfish  policy  kept  ministers  and  vestries  in  a  state 
of  fear  and  trembling  whenever  a  new  church  was  talked  of,  lest  its 
establishment  might  somewhat  interfere  with  their  monopoly,  his 
large  soul,  disdaining  all  petty  considerations,  determined  on  at  least 
one  other  church,  under  the  patronage  of  St,  Paul's.  Mr.  Bedell 
was  about  leaving  North  Carolina,  and  wished  some  situation  in  the 
North.  Mr.  Allen,  learning  this,  immediately  determined  to  secure 
him  for  Philadelphia,  and  proposed  it  to  a  few  friends.  Alarmed 
at  the  thought  of  so  great  a  work,  they  shrunk  back  from  it;  but 
Mr.  Allen  persevered  and  succeeded,  and  St.  Andrew's  church  was 
the  result.  While  Mr.  Bedell  was  collecting  the  congregation  and 
the  house  was  rising  up,  Mr.  Allen  insisted  that  he  should  use  St. 
Paul's  during  part  of  each  Sabbath.  Some  of  his  people  and  friends 
were  alarmed,  and  predicted  that  the  popularity  of  Bedell  would 
ruin  Mr.  Allen's  prospects  and  diminish,  if  not  destroy,  St.  Paul's 
Congregation.  But  nothing  of  this  kind  moved  such  a  man.  His 
reply  was,  'Let  me  decrease,  so  the  Church  increases.'  By  God's 
blessing  on  such  a  Christian  course,  both  increased,  though  Mr 
Allen's  pulpit  talents  were  only  of  the  moderate  order.  At  length, 
under  the  pressure  of  mental  and  bodily  labour,  his  health  so  failed 
that  a  voyage  to  Europe  was  resorted  to.  But  it  was  only  used  by 
him  on  his  way  to  England,  in  England,  and  on  his  return,  as  an 
occasion  for  greater  efforts  in  his  Master's  cause  and  for  the  souls  of 
men.  Providence  found  work  for  him  in  a  foreign  land,  and  gave 
him  favour  with  the  most  zealous  of  the  Christian  philanthropists 
in  England.  It  may  be  safely  affirmed  that,  within  the  same  short 
period,  no  minister  from  this  country  had  ever  attracted  more  at- 
tention, and  had,  and  zealously  used,  more  opportunities  of  promot- 
ing the  welfare  of  all  religious  and  benevolent  societies,  than  Mr. 
Allen..   Even  the  Society  of  Quakers  felt  the  influence  of  his  zeal  in 

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behalf  of  Sunday-Schools  and  to  this  day  [1878]  speak  of  him  as 
'that  wonderful  man.'  After  these  dying  labours,  which  were  like 
the  last  notes  of  the  swan,  he  returned  toward  America  in  a  vessel 
which,  by  contrary  winds,  was  detained  nearly  one  hundred  days  on 
the  great  deep,  the  crew  suffering  for  provisions.  Mr  Allen's  grave 
was  the  great  deep,  as  though  no  narrow  sepuleher  was  fit  for  one 
of  so  large  a  soul." 

In  Virginia,  he  had  settled  at  Charlestown,  Jefferson 
County,  and  Shepherdstown,  Berkeley  County,  and  had 
charge  of  seven  churches.  In  1816,  while  yet  a  deacon,  he 
was  president  of  the  Benevolent  Society  of  the  Parish  of  St. 
Andrews.  He  was  made  a  priest  in  1818,  and  became  rector 
of  St.  Paul's,  in  Philadelphia,  in  1821,  the  latter  fact  being 
announced  by  Richard  North,  John  Pechin,  John  Claxton  and 
Richard  Johnson  of  the  vestry. 

To  Mr.  Allen,  Philadelphia  meant  opportunity  to  spread 
the  cause  of  Christ  in  the  schools,  church  and  secular,  by  word 
of  mouth  and  stroke  of  pen,  and  by  the  multiplying  of 
churches.  As  soon  as  he  was  "comfortably  settled  in  a  house 
at  the  corner  of  Fourth  and  Pine  Streets,"  his  work  began: 
"bible  classes,  lectures,  prayer  meetings  and  three  services 
on  Sundays."  "Lectures  on  Sunday,  Tuesday  and  Friday 
evenings;  with  pastoral  visits  on  Wednesday  and  Thursday 
evenings,  that  is,  meet  a  few  neighbors  assembled  in  a  private 
house  in  any  part  of  the  parish  for  religious  conversation 
and  prayer,  and  on  Mondays  I  wait  in  my  study  for  the  calls 
of  the  young  people  and  others."^ 

He  endeavored  to  break  down  the  middle  wall  of  partition 
between  the  different  portions  of  the  church.  By  his  con- 
ciliatory manner  he  so  far  succeeded  that  the  brethren  were 
able  to  act  more  in  unison  in  the  promotion  of  the  common 

2  Letter  to  his  brother,  the  Rev.  Thomas  G.  Allen,  who  later  devoted 
over  thirty  years  of  his  life  to  the  self  denying  labors  of  mlssTonary  to 
Philadelphia's  destitute  poor. 

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cause.  For  sometime  they  assembled  once  a  week  in  each 
other's  houses.  On  these  occasions  they  listened  to  an  essay 
on  some  branch  of  church  work. 

His  Sunday  Schools  numbered  six  hundred  scholars,  with 
four  to  five  hundred  regular  attendants,  and  required  to  be 
visited  every  Sunday  by  himself. 

The  missionary  cause  was  a  foremost  object  with  Mr. 
Allen,  who  was  one  of  the  most  efficient  members  of  the  execu- 
tive committee  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Society  for 
Domestic  and  Foreign  Missions.  A  contemplated  mission  to 
Africa  especially  excited  his  attention. 

On  May  15,  1822,  he  asked  the  Reverend  Gregory  T.  Bedell, 
D.D.,  to  preach  at  St.  Paul's,  After  the  service  he  induced 
a  few  of  his  friends  to  sign  a  call  to  Mr,  Bedell,  for  one  year 
at  a  salary  of  twelve  hundred  dollars.  '  Shortly  after,  another 
meeting  was  held,  and  a  new  church  authorized.  This  was 
the  origin  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  Eighth  Street  above 
Spruce  Street.  The  Philadelphia  Recorder,  in  announcing  the 
consecration  of  St.  Andrew's,  said  editorially:  ''The  rapidity 
with  which  this  structure  has  been  carried  up,  is  remarkable. 
The  corner-stone  was  laid  in  September  last.  Nine  months 
ago,  the  stone  which  forms  part  of  the  fabric,  was  unquarried 
— the  bricks  were  unburnt— the  wool,  out  of  which  the  lining 
of  the  pews  has  been  made,  was  on  the  back  of  the  sheep. ' ' 

He  was,  on  January  17,  1824,  appointed  by  the  Select  and 
Common  Councils  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  a  director  of 
the  public  schools,  for  the  education  of  children  at  public 
expense,  for  the  first  section  of  the  first  school  district  of 
the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  and  he  served  most  acceptably 
in  this  position  for  the  years  1825,  1826  and  1827.  In  the 
spring  of  1825  he  delivered  lectures  on  Scripture  History  and 
Astronomy,  which  he  illustrated  with  a  magic  lantern,  in  the 
Lombard  Street  Public  School;  each  child  was  eager  with 
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delight  to  be  first  to  give  a  correct  answer  to  his  questions. 
The  children  committed  to  memory,  and  recited  many  por- 
tions of  Scripture,  illustrative  of  the  different  views  pre- 
sented to  them. 

In  acknowledgment  of  his  work  for  Sunday  Schools  he 
received  the  following  graceful  testimony  from  his  teachers 
thereof : 

"Philadelphia,  May  31st,  1825 
"  The  Rev.  B.  Allen — 

"Dear  Sir:  The  teachers  of  St.  Paul's  Sunday-Schools,  as  an  evi- 
dence of  their  personal  regard  for  you,  and  also  of  the  high  estima- 
tion in  which  they  hold  your  services  in  the  cause  of  Sunday-schools, 
have  caused  the  necessary  sum  to  be  paid  the  Treasurer  of  the  Amer- 
ican Sunday-School  Union  for  the  purpose  of  constituting  you  a  life 
member  of  that  valuable  Institution.  Allow  me.  Sir,  to  add,  it  is 
with  a  feeling  of  no  ordinary  gratification,  that  I  have  undertaken  the 
pleasing  duty  of  announcing  to  you  this  fact;  and  in  the  name  and 
behalf  of  the  Societies,  accept  Sir,  the  assurance  of  our  warm  at- 
tachment and  personal  regard. 

"  In  behalf  of  the  Sunday-school  Teachers, 
of  St.  Paul's  Church." 

"  John  rARR,^ 

On  March  10,  1826,  Thomas  Kittera,  Grand  Master  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.  of  Pennsylvania,  held  an  Extra 

3  John  Farr  was  a  native  of  London  and  a  chemist  of  great  ability,  in 
fact  the  chemist  of  the  great  firm  of  Powers  and  Weightman  of  which  he 
was  a  partner.  He  died  March  2nd,  1847,  at  the  age  of  forty  years,  leav- 
ing an  estate  of  over  one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Letters  of  Adminis- 
tration upon  his  estate  were  granted  by  the  Kegister  of  Wills  of  Philadel- 
phia County  March  8th,  1847  to  his  widow,  Mary  J.  Farr,  and  his  friend 
Samuel  N.  Davies,  No.  151  North  6th  Street.  Security  being  first  entered 
for  them  in  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  by  Cornelius  Stevenson,  then 
City  Treasurer  of  Philadelphia  and  A.  Kunzi  of  Spring  Mills,  Mont- 
gomery County,  Pennsylvania.  Stevenson  and  Davies  were  both  members 
of  St.  Paul's.  John  Farr  was  a  Warden  and  one  of  the  four  bible  school 
teachers  of  St.  Paul's.  He  married  Miss  Mary  J.  McCullough,  by  whom 
he  had  eight  daughters  and  four  sons.  His  sister-in-law,  called  affec- 
tionately Aunt  Sarah  McCullough,  taught  with  success  in  the  Sunday- 
School  for  many  years. 

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Communication,  and  announced  that  the  Grand  Lodge  was 
called  "by  virtue  of  his  prerogative,  for  the  purpose  of  enter- 
ing, passing  and  raising  the  Reverend  Benjamin  Allen,  rector 
of  St.  Paul's  Church  of  this  city,  to  the  Sublime  degree  of  a 
Master  Mason,"  which  is  regarded  as  a  distinguished  honor.* 
He  was  subsequently  appointed  Grand  Chaplain  of  the 
Grand  Lodge.  On  December  27,  1827,  he  delivered  an  oration 
before  Phoenix  Lodge  of  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania,  on 
the  "Great  Light  of  Freemasonry." 

Some  idea  of  the  growth  of  Philadelphia  since  1827,  may 
be  gathered  from  some  of  the  facts  set  forth  in  Mr.  Allen's 
letter  of  November,  1827,  to  his  brother,  the  Reverend  Thomas 
Allen,°  which  suggests  that  he  come  and  help  him  at  St.  Paul's, 
and  states  that  "the  western  part  of  Philadelphia  is  rapidly 
settling.  Broad  Street  is  building  up,  so  are  other  streets  west. 
A  church  will  very  soon  be  needed  there.  No  one  now  exists 
in  all  the  west  beyond  Broad.  There  might  you  officiate  Sun- 
day mornings.  Sunday  nights  it  would'  be  necessary  that 
you  preach  in  St.  Paul's."^ 

That  the  prayer-book  might  be  sold  cheaply  and  religious 
books  put  into  easy  circulation,  Mr.  Allen  opened  a  book 
store  called  the  Church  Missionary  House,  at  No.  92  South 

4  Minutes  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  vol.  iv,  p.  39. 

5  His  grandson,  Allen  Childs,  who  died  in  January,  1917,  was  many 
years  vestryman  and  warden  of  Christ  Church,  manager  of  the  American 
Sunday  School  Union,  and  overseer  of  the  Philadelphia  Divinity  School, 
He  was  buried  at  St.  David's,  Eadnor,  of  which  his  father,  Rev.  John  A. 
Childs,  D.D.,  was  long  the  rector. 

6  "Memoir  |  of  the  |  Eev.  Benjamin  Allen,  |  late  rector  of  St.  Paul's 
Church,  Philadelphia.  By  his  brother,  |  the  Rev,  Thomas  G.  Allen.  |  To 
which  is  added  |  The  Funeral  Sermon  delivered  in  St.  Paul 's  Church,  for 
the  improvement  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Allen,  by  |  The  Rev.  Gregory  T. 
Bedell,  DD.  |  Also,  the  History  of  the  |  Bible  Classes  of  St.  Paul's 
Church  I  which  was  written  by  Mr.  Allen  in  England,  and  there  published 
since,  his  death,  |  for  the  benefit  of  his  Family. ' '  Philadelphia,  Latimer 
&  Co.,  No.  13  South  Fourth  Street,  1832. 

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Third  Street,  in  December,  1827.  His  object  was  to  bring 
down  the  price  of  the  prayer-book  and  place  it  within  the 
reach  of  all  the  members  of  the  church.  He  also  designed  to 
publish  the  Homilies  and  other  books,  and  the  profits  of  the 
establishment  were  to  be  devoted  to  the  support  of  missions 
in  the  suburbs  of  Philadelphia.  His  first  agent  in  the  Mis- 
sionary House  was  a  clergyman,  who  also  was  to  act  as  one 
of  the  missionaries,  and  he  agreed  to  give  him,  for  his  entire 
services,  six  hundred  dollars  per  annum. 

The  following  extract  is  from  the  advertisement  of  the 
''Church  Missionary  House,  No.  92  South  Third  Street, 
opposite  St.  Paul's  Church."  With  a  number  of  Mr.  Allen's 
publications  is  listed  for  sale:  ''Doddridge's  Rise  and  Prog- 
ress; Henry  Milner;  Scott's  Force  of  Truth;  The  Publica- 
tions of  the  American  Sunday-school  Union,  and  the  Ameri- 
can Tract  Society,  together  with  a  great  variety  of  other 
books  and  tracts.  The  rule  of  this  establishment  will  be, 
that  no  credit  will  be  allowed  to  any  one.  Its  object  being 
to  supply  the  Church  with  the  Prayer-Book  at  the  lowest 
rate,  and  also  with  the  Homilies,  makes  this  a  necessary  rule. 
Every  farthing  of  the  profits  of  this  establishment  will  be 
sacred  to  the  cause  of  Christ,  devoted  to  the  spread  of  the 
Gospel.  As  the  greater  part  of  the  profits,  it  is  probable,  will 
aid  missionaries,  the  name  of  the  establishment  is  appro- 
priate." 

His  publications,  prompted  by  either  purely  literary, 
patriotic,  or  religious  zeal  were:  "Miscellaneous  Poems  on 
Moral  and  Religious  Subjects,"  by  Osander  (New  York, 
1811)  ;  "United  We  Stand,  Divided  We  Fall,"  by  Juba  (New 
York,  1812);  "Columbia's  Naval  Triumphs"  (New  York, 
1813)  ;  "Urania,  or  the  True  Use  of  Poesy,"  by  B.  Allen,  Jr. 
(Philadelphia,  1814)  ;  "The  Phoenix,  or  the  Battle  of  Valpa- 
raiso," by  B.  Allen,  Jr.   (New  York,  1814)  ;  "The  Death  of 

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Abdallah,"  an  Eastern  tale,  founded  on  the  story  of  Abdallah 
and  Sabat  in  Buchanan's  Christian  Researches  (New  York, 
1814) ;  "The  Palace  of  the  Comet,"  a  poem.  He  edited  the 
Layman's  Magazine  at  Martinsburg,  Va.,  in  1815.  In  Phila- 
delphia, between  1822  and  1828,  he  published:  ** Jesus  Christ 
and  Him  Crucified,"  a  volume  of  sermons;  "Living  Manners, 
or  the  True  Secret  of  Happiness";  an  "Abridgment  of 
Burnet's  History  of  the  Reformation";  "History  of  the 
Church  of  Christ";  "A  Narrative  of  the  Labors,  Sufferings 
and  Final  Triumphs  of  the  Rev,  William  Eldred,  late  a  Mis- 
sionary of  the  Society  for  the  Advancement  of  Christianity 
in  Pennsylvania";  "General  Stevens,  or  the  Fancy  Ball," 
being  the  third  part  of  "Living  Manners";  "The  Church  in 
the  Fires  of  Persecution,  or  a  History  of  the  Sufferings  of 
the  Church  from  the  Days  of  our  Saviour,"  an  abridgment 
of  the  work  of  the  Rev.  George  Croley,  A.M.H.R.L.S.,  on 
the  Apocalypse;  The  Christian  Warrior,  a  weekly  magazine, 
which  had  but  a  short  life.'^  He  also  abridged  the  work  of 
the  Rev.  Edward  Irving,  minister  of  the  Caledonian  Church, 
London,  on  the  prophecies  of  Daniel  and  the  Apocalypse. 

Tall  and  slender,  but  muscular,  with  a  frank  open  counte- 
nance, calm  and  dignified,  his  restless  spirit  would  at  times 
assert  itself.  Indefatigable  in  pulpit  and  press,  it  is  related 
of  him  that  he  could  do  more  work  in  one  day  than  most  per- 
sons in  a  week.  Nature  however  rebelled.  In  1828,  his 
health,  never  robust,  failed,  and  a  European  voyage  was 
arranged  with  a  view  to  its  restoration.  Leaving  his  family 
in  Philadelphia — he  had  married  at  Hudson,  New  York, 
August  6,  1812,  Harriet,  daughter  of  John  Swift  of  that  place 
— he  departed  for  England,  where,  as  told  by  Bishop  Meade, 
he  still  found  work  for  the  Master.  All  that  solicitude,  grati- 
tude and  affection  could  suggest  was  done  by  his  people  to 

7  Scharf  and  Wescott  's  ' '  History  of  Philadelphia, ' '  vol.  ii,  pp.  1143-4. 

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l^igftorg  ot  fe)t.  ^mV0  episcopal  C5urc| 

assuage  the  bitterness  of  separation,  and,  attended  by  the 
vestry  and  a  large  concourse  of  friends  which  included  mem- 
bers of  his  Bible  Class  and  many  of  the  city  clergy,  he  sailed 
down  the  Delaware  to  reembark  at  New  Castle  on  the  ship 
"Montezuma"  for  Liverpool,  in  March,  1828.  Returning 
homeward  on  the  brig  "Edward,"  Captain  Benjamin  F. 
Libby,  from  Liverpool,  he  died  on  the  voyage,  January  13, 
1829,  and  was  buried  at  sea  the  next  day  at  high  noon.  On 
the  flooring  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  a  stone  is  placed  and 
marked : 

"  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  the 
Reverend  Benjamin  Allen, 
Rector  of  this  Church  seven  years 
and  four  months,  who  departed 
this  life  on  the  Thirteenth  of 
January,  One  Thousand  Eight 
Hundred  and  Twenty-nine  on  his  passage 
from  Liverpool,  England, 
To  Philadelphia,  where  he  had 
Gone  for  the  restoration  of  his 
health,  aged  Thirty-nine  years, 
three  months  and  fifteen  days. 
By  direction  of  the  Vestry." 


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RECTOR    OF    ST.    PAUL'S,    1829-1833. 


..'  ..^ 


THE  RECTORSHIP  QF  DR.  TYNG 

1829-1833 

^^M^HE  Reverend  Stephen  Higginson  Tyng,  D.D., 
/  *j|  rector  from  May  4,  1829,  to  October,  1833,  son  of 
M  I  I  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Hig- 
^^^^^  ginson,  was  born  in  Newburyport,  Massachusetts, 
March  1,  1800,  and  died  at  Irvington-on-Hudson, 
New  York,  September  4,  1885.  Educated  at  Phillips  Andover 
Academy,  Massachusetts,  he  was  graduated  with  honors 
from  Harvard  College  in  1817  and  studied  theology  under 
Bishop  Griswold  in  Bristol,  Rhode  Island.  His  first  parish 
was  St.  George's,  Georgetown,  District  of  Columbia,  and  the 
next.  Queen  Anne  parish,  Prince  George  County,  Maryland. 
While  there  he  was  elected  rector  of  St.  Paul's,  Philadelphia, 
May  4,  1829. 

Of  this  event.  Dr.  Tyng,  speaking  many  years  afterwards, 
and  on  the  sorrowful  occasion  of  the  death  of  his  eldest  and 
brilliant  son,  the  Rev.  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  said:  **It  pleased 
God  to  remove  us  all  to  Philadelphia,  to  St.  Paul's  Church, 
a  church  in  which  we  had  not  a  single  acquaintance.  There 
we  found  many  friends,  whose  love  is  undying,  and  whose 
kindness  to  me  and  mine  while  we  were  yet  but  strangers  in 
the  land  has  been  of  incalculable,  everlasting  worth. ' ' 

At  this  period,  St.  Paul's,  only  sixty-nine  years  old,  was 
one  of  the  most  important  and  influential  Episcopal  Churches 

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^i^tot^  of  &t  ^anV0  (Episcopal  C^wwS 

in  Philadelphia.  Being  an  active  and  progressive  congre- 
gation, it  decided  to  destroy  the  simple  colonial  architecture 
of  the  church  by  so-called  modern  improvements.  Previous 
to  this  the  Sunday-schools  met  at  private  houses.  Now,  being 
determined  to  accommodate  them  in  the  church,  quarters 
were  obtained  by  remodeling  and  destroying  the  beautiful 
interior.  High  steps  were  placed  in  front  of  the  church  and 
the  floor  raised  midway,  so  that  the  Sunday-school  could  be 
accommodated  on  the  first  floor.  The  old  high  back  pews 
were  taken  out  and  low  pews  substituted.  Two  angels,  of  life 
size  in  wood,  by  Rush,  which  stood  on  each  side  of  the  old 
organ,  as  well  as  the  sounding  board,  were  taken  down,  and 
St.  Peter's,  which  ever  seems  to  have  had  a  desire  to  pre- 
serve the  classic  and  artistic  beauty  of  the  architecture  of 
that  period,  asked  for  them  as  well  as  other  furnishings, 
which  are  still  used  to  embellish  that  church  to-day.  It  is 
enough  to  say  that  much  of  the  beauty  and  simplicity  of  St. 
Paul's  was  destroyed  by  these  changes.  While  Christ  Church 
made  similar  alterations  with  its  pews,  it  has  since  taken 
them  out  and  re-installed  the  colonial  pews,  although  not  of 
the  original  height.  Gothic,  now  a  word  of  praise,  was  the 
term  of  reproach  Sir  Christopher  Wren  applied  to  all  mediae- 
val architecture.  In  viewing  St.  Paul's  to-day  we  understand 
what  Englishmen  meant  when  they,  too,  said  regretfully — 

"The  Goths  and  Vandals  of  our  Isle, 
Sworn  foes  to  sense  and  law, 
Have  burnt  to  dust  a  nobler  pile. 
Than  Romans  ever  saw." 

Following  the  re-modelling,  both  internally  and  externally, 
the  church  was  consecrated  by  the  venerable  Bishop  White  on 
New  Year's  Day,  1831.  The  sermon,  preached  by  the  rector, 
embracing  a  historical  review  of  the  parish  as  well  as  the 

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lBlectot0|ip  ot  2Dt.  ^^m 


practical  application  of  the  text,  was  well  received^  and 
printed  by  the  Vestry. 

Shortly  after  Dr.  Tyng  became  rector,  on  the  eleventh  of 
June,  1830,  the  City  Guards  of  Boston  visited  Philadelphia. 
They  arrived  in  Kensington  and  were  received  by  an  escort 
of  infantry  under  command  of  Colonel  James  Page.  March- 
ing to  Second  and  Arch  Streets,  with  companies  of  the  First 
Division,  under  Brigadier-Generals  Robert  Patterson  and 
John  D.  Goodwin,  all  under  the  command  of  Major-General 
Thomas  Cadwalader,  they  camped  at  Broad  and  Market 
Streets  on  the  site  of  the  present  City  Hall,  and  were  enter- 
tained by  General  Cadwalader  at  his  residence,  Arch  Street 
below  Ninth  Street.  The  next  day  being  Sunday,  the  guards 
attended  services  at  St.  Paul's  Church,  accompanied  by  their 
band.  Dr.  Tyng  had  formerly  been  a  member  of  the  company, 
and  he  preached  to  his  old  comrades  from  Proverbs,  23d 
chapter,  15th  verse,  *'My  Son,  if  thine  heart  be  wise,  my 
heart  shall  rejoice,  even  mine. ' ' 

Distinguished  for  oratory  in  the  pulpit  and  for  able  and 
efficient  temperance  and  patriotic  addresses,  he  also  had  the 
pen  of  the  ready  writer  and  published  numerous  volumes  of 
interest  and  value.  After  leaving  St.  Paul's  he  became 
rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany,^  in  Philadelphia  (now 

1  Whereas,  the  publication  of  the  sermon  which  was  preached  by  the 
Eev.  Mr.  Tyng,  rector  of  the  Church,  at  the  Consecration  of  the  Church 
on  the  first  instant  is  calculated  in  the  opinion  of  the  Vestry  to  promote 
true  religion,  and  to  increase  the  peace  and  harmony  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  amongst  us,  and  contains  certain  information  exceedingly  in- 
teresting to  the  members  of  our  congregation:  therefore 

Resolved,  that  Richard  Eenshaw,  Esq.,  John  W.  Odenheimer  and  Na- 
thaniel Holland  be  appointed  a  committee  to  wait  on  our  Eector,  and  to 
request  him  to  furnish  them  with  a  copy  of  the  said  Sermon  for  the  above 
purpose.  J.  D.  George,  Secretary. 

2  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  1825-1858,  eldest  son  of  Dr.  Tyng,  was,  in  1854, 
called  by  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany  to  fill  the  pulpit  his  distinguished 
father  had  so  adorned. 

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^i0tot^  of  &t  pauI'iS  episcopal  C^utcl 

consolidated  with  St.  Luke's),  then  at  the  northwest  comer 
of  Fifteenth  and  Chestnut  Streets,  where  he  served  twelve 
years,  doing  most  excellent  work.  In  1861  he  resigned  and 
removed  to  New  York,  and  became  rector  of  St.  George's 
Church,  where  he  labored  for  more  than  thirty  years  until 
his  retirement  as  rector  emeritus  in  1878. 

For  years  the  leader  of  that  part  of  the  clergy  known  as 
low  churchmen,^'  he  was  active  in  organizing  and  forward- 
ing the  Evangelical  Knowledge  Society,  the  American 
Church  Missionary  Society,  and  the  Episcopal  Education 
Society.  For  some  time  he  was  the  editor  of  the  Episcopal 
Recorder  and  the  Protestant  Churchman. 

The  degree  of  D.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Jefferson 
College,  Pennsylvania,  in  1832,  and  by  Harvard  in  1851. 

His  first  wife,  Ann  DeWolf  Griswold,  whom  he  married  Au- 
gust 5,  1821,  daughter  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  Alexander  W.  Griswold, 
Bishop  of  Massachusetts,  died  at  Philadelphia,  May  16,  1832, 
aged  twenty-seven  years  and  seven  months,  and  was  buried 
in  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany  ground.  He  married,  second, 
Susan  W.  Mitchell  of  Philadelphia. 

Chief  among  his  printed  works  were:  '"the  Importance  of 
Uniting  Manual  Labor  with  Intellectual  Attainments  in  a 
Preparation  for  the  Ministry,"  A  Discourse  preached  at  the 

3 ' '  Thirty-six  years  ago  I  was  called  to  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  in  the 
midst  of  a  large  population  of  our  Church  with  whom  I  sympathized  en- 
tirely. This  exclusive  system  had  never  ruled  in  Pennsylvania.  I  waa 
received  with  a  paternal  kindness  by  Bishop  White,  which  I  can  never 
forget.  To  him  I  submitted  personally  the  very  questions  which  are  now 
discussed.  Shall  I  accept  invitations  to  preach  in  churches  which  are  not 
Episcopal?  In  what  way  shall  I  use  our  form  of  prayer  on  such  occa- 
sions? Preach  for  all  who  invite  you,  if  you  can  and  desire  to  do  it. 
Employ  the  Prayer-Book  as  much  as  you  can  usefully  and  consistently 
with  their  habits,  was  the  substance  of  his  replies.  This  I  did  probably 
in  more  than  fifty  cases  in  the  Diocese  of  Pennsylvania."  From  Open 
Letter  to  Kt,  Rev.  Horatio  Potter,  D.D.,  by  Stephen  H.  Tyng  (New  York, 
1865). 

138 


IBl^ctotieiS ip  ot  2Dr.  'Egnff 


request  of  the  Episcopal  Education  Society  of  Pennsylvania 
and  printed  by  their  Direction  (Philadelphia,  1830)  ;  "A 
Sermon,  preached  at  the  Consecration  of  St.  Paul's  Church, 
Philadelphia,  January  1,  1831";  ''Lectures  on  the  Law  and 
the  Gospel"  (Philadelphia,  1832)  ;  ''The  Connection  between 
early  Religious  Instruction  and  Mature  Piety,"  A  Sermon, 
preached  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia,  May  22,  1837; 
"The  Eighth  of  a  Series  of  Annual  Sermons  Preached  and 
Published  at  the  Request  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the 
American  Sunday-school  Union,"  Philadelphia,  1837,  "Me- 
moir of  the  Rev.  Gregory  T.  Bedell"  (1835);  "Sermons 
preached  in  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany"  (1839),  repub- 
lished as  "The  Israel  of  God"  (1854)  ;  "A  Plea  for  Union," 
a  Sermon  Preached  before  the  Special  Convention  of  The 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  in 
St.  Andrew's  Church,  Philadelphia,  September  6,  1844, 
Printed  by  order  of  the  Convention,  Philadelphia,  1844;  "The 
Beloved  Physician,"  A  Discourse  addressed  to  Medical  Stu- 
dents, Delivered  in  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany,  Phila- 
delphia, February  4,  1844,  Printed  at  the  Request  of  the 
Medical  Students'  Temperance  Society,  Philadelphia,  1844; 
"Recollections  of  England"  (New  York,  1847);  "Christ  in 
All,"  sermons  (1852)  ;  "The  Rich  Kinsman,  the  History  of 
Ruth,  the  Moabitess"  (London,  1856)  ;  "Washington,  an 
exemplification  of  the  principles  of  Free  Masonry,"  "an  ora- 
tion at  the  Centennial  of  the  Initiation  of  George  Washing- 
ton, November  4,  1852  (New  York,  1852)  ;  "Forty  Years' 
Experience  in  Sunday-Schools"  (New  York,  I860);  "The 
Captive  Orphan:  Esther,  Queen  of  Persia"  (1860);  "The 
Prayer-Book  Illustrated  by  Scripture"  (8  vols.,  1863-7); 
"The  Child  of  Prayer,  a  Father's  Memorial  of  D.  A.  Tyng" 
(1866)  ;  "Address  at  the  installation  of  the  officers  of  Conti- 
nental Lodge,  No.  257,  F.  &  A.  M.,  New  York,  January  2, 

139 


1867"  (N.  Y.,  n.  d.)  ;  and  "The  Office  and  Duty  of  a  Chris- 
tian Pastor"  (1874).  Both  Dr.  Tyng  and  his  son,  Rev.  Dud- 
ley Atkins  Tyng,  published  a  collection  of  "Additional 
Hymns"  for  use  at  lectures  and  prayer  meetings.  The  son's 
collection,  bound  with  "The  Prayer-Book  Collection"  and 
Chants  and  Tunes  for  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  appeared 
as  "The  Lecture-Room  Hymn  Book"  (Philadelphia,  1855).* 
Bishop  Bedell  of  Ohio  published  an  interesting  Memorial 
of  Dr.  Tyng  (New  York,  1860),  and  his  son,  Charles  Rock- 
land Tyng,  also  prepared  a  Life  of  Stephen  H.  Tyng. 

* ' '  The  English  Hymn,  Its  Development  and  Use  in  Worship, '  *  by 
Louis  F,  Benson,  D.D.,  New  York,  1915. 


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RIGHT    REVEREND   SAMUEL   A.    McCOSKREY,    D.D. 

BISHOP    OF    MICHIGAN 
RECTOR  OF    ST.    PAUL'S    1834-1836. 


THE  RECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  McCOSKREY 
1834-1836 

HE  Reverend  Samuel  A,  McCoskrey,  D.D.,  rector 
/  ^  from  June,  1834,  to  June,  1836,  born  at  Carlisle, 

H     H  Pennsylvania,  November  9,  1804;  died  in  New 

^^^f  York  City,  August  1,  1886.  A  cadet  at  the  West 
Point  Military  Academy,  he  subsequently  at- 
tended Dickinson  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1825.  He  studied  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  for  six 
years  practiced  his  profession  in  his  native  town.  In  1831 
he  began  the  study  of  theology,  preparatory  to  orders  in  the 
Episcopal  Church,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Onderdonk  as 
deacon  on  the  twenty-eighth  of  March,  1833,  and  as  a  priest, 
thirteenth  December,  1833.  His  first  charge  was  as  rector 
of  Christ  Church,  Reading,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  called  to 
St.  Paul's,  and  installed  by  Bishop  White,  July  13,  1834,  and 
remained  as  rector  until  his  election  as  first  Bishop  of  Michi- 
gan, of  which  Diocese  he  was  consecrated  Bishop,  in  St.  Paul 's 
Church,  July  7,  1836,  by  the  Right  Reverend  Bishops  Onder- 
donk, Doane  and  Kemper,  and,  having  been  rector  of  St. 
Paul's,  Detroit,  for  twenty-seven  years,  as  well  as  bishop,  he 
resigned  his  jurisdiction  in  March,  1878,  on  the  plea  of 
feeble  health. 
While  at  St.   Paul's,   Philadelphia,   he  was  most  highly 

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esteemed,  being  a  man  of  great  force  of  character,  learning 
and  ability  as  a  preacher.  He  had  been  greatly  interested  in 
the  Sunday-school,  and,  unable  to  be  present  at  its  Fiftieth 
Anniversary,  sent  a  letter  of  regret  from  Detroit,  May  19, 
1866,  of  which  the  following  is  a  copy : 

"  Reverend  and  Dear  Sir : 

"  I  reached  home  last  evening,  after  an  absence  of  eight  days.  I 
received  your  letter  and  hasten  to  answer  it.  I  need  scarcely  say, 
that  it  would  have  given  me  the  greatest  pleasure  to  be  present  at 
the  proposed  celebration  of  the  Sunday-school.  My  recollections  of 
*  Old  St.  Paul's '  are  still  fresh  in  my  mind ;  and  particularly  the 
kindness  I  received  from  its  members.  I  left  it  with  the  deepest 
regret  to  go  I  knew  not  whither.  Do  present  me  most  affectionately 
to  all  who  once  knew  me,  and  tell  the  dear  children  (if  this  letter 
reach  you  in  time)  not  to  forget  one  whose  voice  was  heard  years 
ago  within  its  sacred  walls,  pleading  with  wandering  children  to 
come  back  to  Christ,  and  telling  in  the  kindest  terms  that  he  died  to 
save  the  poorest  and  the  meanest  of  human  kind.  Tell  them  that 
we  have  nearly;  1,500  children  in  our  schools  in  the  churches,  at 
Detroit;  five  large  churches  full  to  overflowing,  and  room  for  one 
or  two  more.     Truly,  God  has  been  gracious  to  us. 

"  I  trust  that  God  will  bless  your  efforts  to  impress  the  children  of 
the  church  with  a  deep  sense  of  their  obligations  to  love  and  serve 
Him  who  redeemed  them  with  His  precious  blood. 
"  Most  truly  yours, 

"  Samuel  A.  MoCoskrey, 

''  To  Rev.  R.  Heber  Newton." 

In  recognition  of  his  great  learning,  Columbia  College  of 
New  York,  and  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity,  in  1837,  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  Oxford,  England,  in  1852,  conferred  upon  him  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Civil  Law. 


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REV.   JAMES    MAY,    D.D. 

RECTOR    OF    ST.    PAUL'S    1836-1840. 


RECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  MAY 
1836-1840 

^I^^B^  HE  Reverend  James  May,  D.D.,  rector  from 
/  -^  I  October,  1836,  to  May,  1840,  was  born  in  Chester 
M  I  I  County,  Pennsylvania,  October  1,  1805,  and  died 
^^^^^  at  Philadelphia,  December  18,  1863.  He  was  the 
son  of  Robert  May  by  his  wife  Ruth  Potts. 
Educated  at  Pottstown  and  at  Norristown,  Pennsylvania,  he, 
in  1822,  entered  Jefferson  College,  Cannonsburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  the  senior  class,  so  far  advanced  was  he  in  his  studies, 
and  there  he  was  graduated  with  high  distinction.  For  some 
months  he  studied  law  with  Governor  Stevens  of  Maryland,  at 
Easton,  on  the  Eastern  Shore,  but  concluded  not  to  pursue  it, 
and  turned  his  attention  to  the  ministry  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.  His  brother  Thomas  Potts  May,  also  a  clergyman, 
had  been  invited  to  preach  in  St.  Paul's  with  reference,  per- 
haps, to  being  called  as  rector.  At  the  time,  1819,  the  yellow 
fever  was  prevailing  in  Philadelphia.  He  returned  to  Norris- 
town, and  either  on  the  day  of  his  preaching  at  St.  Paul 's,  or 
on  that  immediately  following,  he  was  stricken  with  the  fever 
and  died  September  20,  1819,  as  related  by  Hotchkin  in  his 
"Country  Clergy."  In  October,  1825,  James  May  en- 
tered the  Theological  Seminary  at  Alexandria,  Virginia,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  middle  class  of  that  institution. 

Ordained  in   1826,   by  Bishop   "White   in   Christ   Church, 

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Philadelphia,  he  became  rector  of  St.  Stephen's  Church  in 
Wilkes-Barre,  Pennsylvania,  in  February,  1827,  where  he 
remained  until  he  became  rector  of  St.  Paul's,  Philadelphia, 
in  1836. 

Under  his  ministry  the  church  in  Wilkes-Barre,  from  a 
feeble  missionary  station,  grew  to  be  what  it  has  ever  since 
continued,  the  largest,  strongest,  most  effective  church  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Communion  in  central  Pennsylvania. 
The  sentiment  of  its  parishioners  in  regard  to  Dr.  May  may 
be  gathered  from  the  kind  expression  of  the  vestry  after  he 
had  declined  one  of  numerous  calls.  "When  you  first  came 
to  this  people,"  reads  the  record,  "you  found  them  divided 
and  broken,  burdened  with  debt  and  few  in  number.  The 
influence  of  your  character  and  your  exertions  have  healed 
these  dissentions,  have  ennabled  them  to  free  themselves  from 
their  incumbrances,  and  have  formed  them  into  a  respectful 
body  of  attentive  hearers." 

Dr.  May's  health  failing  shortly  after  his  settlement  at 
St,  Paul's,  he  went  abroad  for  its  recovery,  and,  upon  his 
return  to  America,  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  Church  History 
in  the  Virginia  Theological  Seminary  and  remained  there 
until  1861,  when  he  became  a  professor  in  the  Philadelphia 
Divinity  School  and  held  this  position  at  the  time  of  his 
decease. 

He  was  a  man  of  great  intellectual  ability,  much  beloved  by 
his  parishioners,  and  in  the  seminaries  with  which  he  had  been 
connected.  His  "Life  and  Letters,"  prepared  by  the  Rev. 
Alexander  Shiras,  has  been  published. 

In  1829,  he  married  Ellen  Stuart,  daughter  of  Captain 
Samuel  Bowman  by  his  wife  Eleanor  Ledlie  of  Wilkes-Barre, 
and  sister  of  the  Right  Reverend  Samuel  Bowman,  Bishop  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  died  without  surviving  issue.  He  was 
buried  in  St.  Mary's  Churchyard,  West  Philadelphia, 

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REV.    RICHARD    NEWTON,    D.  D. 

RECTOR    OF    ST.    PAUL'S    1840-1862. 


RECTOESHIP  OF  DR.  NEWTON 

1840-1862 

HE  Reverend  Richard  Newton,  D.D.,  rector  from 
y#^  November,  1840,   to  May,   1862,  third  son  and 

1     I  fifth  child  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth    (Cluett) 

^^^^Jr  Newton,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  England,  26 
July,  1812,  and  died  at  Chestnut  Hill,  Phila- 
delphia, 25  May,  1887.  He  came  to  Philadelphia  with  his 
parents  August  20,  1824,  in  the  Barque  "Fanny,"  and  ob- 
tained his  early  education  in  Philadelphia  and  Wilmington, 
Delaware.  Graduated  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
in  the  class  of  1836,  he  began  his  preparation  for  holy  orders 
at  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  New  York,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1839.  In  1838,  in  order  to  raise  funds  to 
pay  his  tuition  in  the  Seminary  he  opened  a  select  school  in 
Wilmington,  Delaware,  for  the  sons  of  friends  of  Mrs.  Bayard. 
Her  son,  the  late  Thomas  F.  Bayard  (afterward  Secre- 
tary of  State  and  Ambassador  to  England),  then  seven  years 
old,  was  one  of  his  scholars.  When  his  friend  and  adviser, 
Rev.  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  then  Rector  of  St.  Paul's,  heard  of 
his  decision,  he  remarked,  "I  am  surprised  at  your  conduct, 
Richard,  in  going  to  the  New  York  Seminary,  where  High 
Church  teachings  prevail.  For  my  part,  I  would  go  down 
with  Jonah  and  study  theology  in  the  whale's  belly,  before 
I  would  go  to  the  New  York  Seminary. ' ' 
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l^tgftotg  of  &t  pauri^  Cpisicopal  C5«tc5 

Ordained  deacon  July  4,  1839,  at  St.  John's  Church,  North- 
ern Liberties,  Philadelphia,  by  the  Right  Reverend  Henry  U. 
Onderdonk,  D.D.,  he  was  made  priest  by  the  same  Bishop, 
July  26,  1840,  in  Holy  Trinity  Church,  West  Chester, 
Pennsylvania,  where  his  ministry  had  begun,  on  the  first 
Sunday  in  November,  1839,  at  a  salary  of  four  hundred 
dollars. 

In  November,  1840,  he  was  called  to  St.  Paul's.  His  selec- 
tion to  this  post,  which  he  held  for  twenty-two  years,  came 
about  in  this  way:  In  the  early  autumn  of  this  year  Rev. 
John  A.  Clark,  then  rector  of  St.  Andrew's  Church,  invited 
a  noted  clergyman,  who  failed  to  appear.  In  this  emergency, 
Mr.  Newton,  who  happened  to  be  present,  preached.  A  com- 
mittee from  St.  Paul 's,  present  to  hear  the  appointed  preacher, 
was  so  favorably  impressed  by  his  sermon  that  it  decided  to 
call  him  as  Dr.  Tyng's  successor.  His  ministry  here  was 
highly  successful,  his  Sunday-school  work  was  famous,  and 
his  sermons  to  children  were  widely  printed  and  widely  read. 

St.  Paul's  was  greatly  interested  in  foreign  missions  and 
spent  large  sums  in  supporting  them,  in  the  South  Sea  Islands, 
Africa  and  China.  One  of  them  was  in  Liberia,  at  Cape 
Palmas  (1856),  called  Hoffman.  Thomas  Jefferson  strongly 
disapproved  of  missions,  as  did  many  others.  His  and  their 
view  was  that,  it  was  not  the  duty  of  the  Church  to  disturb  by 
missionaries  the  religion  and  peace  of  other  countries,  nor  to 
extinguish  by  fire  and  fagot  the  heresies  called  by  the  name 
of  conversions. 

The  Episcopal  Clergy  of  Philadelphia  from  1855  to  1866 
were  marked  men.  Alonzo  Potter  was  the  great  Bishop  of  the 
entire  State  of  Pennsylvania.  Dr.  Suddards  was  at  Grace 
Church  with  the  memories  of  his  past  career.  Dr.  Pratt  was 
at  the  Covenant,  the  church  of  Dr.  Newton's  old  age.  Dr. 
Alexander  H.  Vinton  was  at  the  new  parish  of  Holy  Trinity ; 

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INTERIOR    OF    ST.     PAUL'S    IN     1861, 

REV.    RICHARD   NEWTON,   D.D.,   RECTOR. 


Wiettot^'^iV  ot  2Dr»  Me\xiton 


Dudley  A.  Tyng  had  left  his  wonderful  influence  upon  the 
young  men  of  his  day.  Kingston  Goddard  was  at  the  Atone- 
ment, at  times  strangely  eloquent.  Dr.  Neville,  with  his  mys- 
terious career,  had  left  a  marked  impression  behind  him. 
Richard  Cardan  was  electrifying  great  audiences  at  the  San- 
som  Street  Union  Prayer  Meetings.  Henry  Wise,  with  the 
shadow  of  death  upon  him,  was  followed  by  crowds  from 
church  to  church  whenever  he  preached,  and  Phillips  Brooks 
was  beginning  his  wonderful  career  at  the  little  church  of  the 
Advent  at  Fifth  and  Buttonwood  Streets.  Bishop  Stevens 
had  just  been  made  assistant  to  Bishop  Potter.  Dr.  Oden- 
heimer,  that  indefatigable  parish  priest  and  staunch  church- 
man, was,  after  twenty  years  of  service  at  St.  Peter's,  still  the 
new  Bishop  of  the  adjoining  parish  of  New  Jersey.  Dr.  Dorr 
was  at  Christ  Church,  well  worn  in  its  service.  Dr.  Mark 
Anthony  De  Wolfe  Howe  was  at  St.  Luke's.  Dr.  Hare  wa& 
still  principal  at  the  Episcopal  Academy.  Dr.  Daniel  R. 
Goodwin  was  Provost  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
the  new  Episcopal  Divinity  School  was  rejoicing  in  possessing 
as  its  new  teacher,  the  Rev.  Clement  M.  Butler,  D.D.,  of 
Washington,  D.  C. 

During  Dr.  Newton 's  pastorate,  prayer  meetings  were  regu- 
larly held  in  the  Sunday-school  room  every  Saturday  even- 
ing. A  layman  would  read  a  chapter  from  the  Bible,  and 
the  rector  the  prayers.  William  Alexander,  one  of  the  promi- 
nent laymen,  was  sent  for  by  Bishop  White,  who  told  him  St. 
Paul's  had  no  right  to  hold  prayer  meetings,  as  there  was  no 
authority  for  it;  that  he  strongly  disapproved  and  desired 
them  discontinued.  The  Bishop  was  told,  that  St.  Paul's  had 
found  the  meetings  most  helpful  to  the  laymen ;  that  it  brought 
them  together  and  kept  them  in  touch  with  the  work  of  the 
parish,  and  that  St.  Paul's  declined  to  discontinue  them.. 

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Many  were  the  parish  activities  of  this  rectorate,  as  the  fol- 
lowing will  in  a  measure  indicate :  In  1861,  the  laymen  founded 
the  Pastoral  Aid  Association — President,  Reverend  Richard 
Newton,  D.D. ;  Vice-president,  Thomas  Latimer;  Secretary, 
Howard  Edwards;  Treasurer,  J.  H,  Harman.  Its  object  was 
to  call  out  the  active  lay-agency  of  the  church,  in  doing  good 
to  the  bodies  and  souls  of  the  destitute,  by  the  use  of  means 
additional  to  those  employed  by  the  Sabbath  School  Societies, 
the  Doras  Society,  the  Missionary  Society  and  the  other  soci- 
eties connected  with  the  church. 

The  Chairmen  of  Standing  Committees  for  1861  were: 

1.  Finance,  George  C.  Thomas,  No.  228  N.  5th  Street. 

2.  Tract  Distribution,  Thomas  Latimer,  No,  223  German 

Street. 

3.  Devotional  Meetings,  E,  D.  Brooks,  No.  246  Chestnut 

Street. 

4.  Visiting  Sick  and  Poor,  R.  Heber  Newton,  No.  251  S. 

13th  Street. 

5.  Strangers  in  the  City,  Norris  S.  Cummings,  No.  1120 

Pine  Street, 

6.  Church  Directory,  George  C.  Thomas,  No.  228  N.  5th 

Street. 

7.  Parish  Visitation,  Thomas  Latimer,  No.  223  German 

Street. 

8.  Missionary  Intelligence,  no  chairman  required. 

The  vestrymen  elected  Easter  Monday,  1861,  were:  John 
D.  George,  Jay  Cooke,  John  W.  Thomas,  Richard  F.  Loper, 
William  Cummings,  Joseph  B.  Van  Dusen,  Richard  G.  Stotes- 
bury  Eleazer  Fenton,  R.  S.  H.  George,  Charles  B.  Durborow, 
Henry  M.  Kimmey,  James  M.  Farr.  The  Sexton  was  William 
Brown,  and  the  Organist,  Joseph  J.  Redner. 

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No  part  of  Dr.  Newton's  work  at  St.  Paul's,  or  elsewhere, 
was  as  important  as  that  in  the  Sunday-schools,  indeed  that 
work  stands  out  as  the  great  beacon  light  of  his  career. 

Two  interesting  features  in  the  operations  of  these  schools 
were  engrafted  upon  them  under  Dr.  Newton's  rectorship. 
They  afterward  became  permanent  features  in  the  working  of 
the  schools,  and  have  since  been  very  widely  adopted  in  other 
schools  and  churches,  with  the  most  beneficial  results.  One, 
was  the  plan  of  making  a  missionary  offering  by  the  teachers 
and  scholars,  in  connection  with  the  exercises  of  the  anniver- 
sary, instead  of  having  books  given  to  them.  This  plan  was 
first  tried,  as  a  matter  of  experiment,  in  the  year  1846.  The 
sum  presented  in  that  first  offering  was  $80.  The  amount  of 
the  offering  went  on  steadily  increasing  each  year,  till  in  1865, 
it  reached  the  large  sum  of  $3,524. 

The  interest  of  the  school  in  the  offering  kept  pace  with  the 
increase  of  the  amount  raised,  and  the  whole  influence  was 
found  to  be  so  happy  and  salutary,  as  to  afford  a  striking 
practical  illustration  of  the  truth  of  the  Saviour's  words: 
"It  is  more  blessed  to  give  than  to  receive."  During 
the  twenty  years  in  which  this  plan  was  in  operation,  1846 
to  1866,  the  offering  of  the  schools  amounted  to  the  sum  of 
$33,500. 

The  other  matter  referred  to,  as  introduced  by  Dr.  Newton 
while  laboring  as  the  head  of  the  schools,  was  the  service 
known  as  the  "Children's  Church."  "While  reflecting  on 
the  Saviour's  injunction  to  Peter,  'Feed  my  Lambs,'  "  as 
the  Doctor  himself  states  the  matter,  "I  was  led  to  ask  my- 
self, What  am  I  doing  in  public  capacity  as  a  minister  of 
Christ  to  comply  with  this  injunction?  I  was  compelled  in 
frankness  to  say,  nothing.  Then  I  made  up  my  mind  to  have 
a  service  at  least  once  a  month,  in  which  the  sermon  should  be 
preached  with  a  distinct  reference  to  feeding  the  lambs.    The 

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effort  soon  proved  a  success,  and  'the  children's  church'  be- 
came one  of  the  most  useful  services  held  in  connection  with 
the  church." 

This  form  of  service  became  an  integral  part  of  the  Sunday- 
school  work  in  this  church,  and  it  has  also  been  adopted 
in  many  other  churches.  The  influence  for  good  which  has 
gone  out  from  this  single  instrumentality,  put  in  motion  by 
this  school,  who  can  estimate  ?  And  may  it  not  be  hoped  that 
the  use  of  this  feature  of  Christian  work  will  spread  wider 
and  wider,  till,  in  all  churches,  the  children,  who  at  their  bap- 
tism are  brought  under  solemn  obligations  'Ho  hear  ser- 
mons, ' '  may  at  least  occasionally  have  sermons  preached  unto 
them  which  they  can  hear  and  understand. 

Spurgeon  fittingly  called  Dr.  Newton,  ' '  The  Prince  of  Chil- 
dren's Preachers."  His  thought  was  in  line  with  that  after- 
wards expressed  by  Mrs.  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett  who  said : 
"One  generation,  one  entire  generation  of  all  the  world  of 
children,  understood  as  they  should  be,  loved  as  they  ask  to 
be,  and  so  developed  as  they  might  be,  would  more  than  bring 
in  the  millennium. "  It  is  now  thirty  years  since  his  death  and 
no  other  one  of  the  clergy  has  attempted  to  continue  his  chil- 
dren's sermons.  Perhaps  his  great  success  has  acted  as  a 
deterrent  to  others,  but  the  field  in  which  he  was  long  pre- 
eminent is  now  neglected  and  choked  with  weeds. 

During  Dr.  Newton's  rectorship  there  was  a  character  in 
the  church  named  George  Lewis,  who  used  to  blow  the  organ, 
and  tell  the  boys  stories  in  the  gallery.  In  arranging  for  a 
voyage  to  England,  he  took  solemn  leave  of  the  Sunday-school 
and  promised  to  bring  home  a  present  for  "Missionary 
Sunday,"  which  had  become  an  annual  event.  Arriving 
in  London  he  went  to  the  office  of  the  Foreign  Missionary 
Society  and  asked  for  some  missionary  relic.  It  happened  at 
that  time  that  the  missionary  ship  "John  Williams"  was  in 

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port,  and  in  the  dry  dock  for  repairs.  He  was  given  a  beam  of 
the  ship,  which  was  being  repaired  and,  on  his  return  to  Phila- 
delphia, presented  it  to  St.  Paul's  Sunday-school  with  great 
pomp  and  ceremony  on  a  certain  "Missionary  Sunday,"  to 
the  intense  admiration  of  the  children.  Thereupon,  Captain 
Richard  F.  Loper,  a  prominent  merchant  and  vestryman  of 
St.  Paul's,  made  it  into  a  full-rigged  ship,  a  model  of  the 
"John  Williams,"  named  after  the  martyr  missionary  to  the 
South  Sea  Islands.  Annually,  on  the  Anniversary  Sundays, 
this  ship  used  to  make  voyages  up  and  down  the  aisle,  until  her 
deck  would  be  covered  with  little  bags  of  money  offerings, 
reserved  for  that  occasion. 

Bishop  Odenheimer,  Bishop  Scarborough,  Henry  George, 
the  single  tax  advocate,  Edwin  Forrest  and  Owen  Fawcett, 
the  actors,  were,  at  differing  periods,  among  those  who  at- 
tended St.  Paul's  Sunday-schools. 

While  rector  here.  Dr.  Newton  lived  in  the  red  rectory  on 
York  Street,  adjoining  the  graveyard,  subsequently  sold  and 
turned  into  the  engine  house  of  the  "Hibernia"  fire  com- 
pany, a  noted  organization  of  the  Philadelphia  Volunteer  Fire 
Department  of  those  days. 

On  Christmas  Day,  1858,  Jay  Cooke  took  Dr.  Newton  to 
a  cottage  with  an  octagon  tower  at  Chelten  Hills,  which  was 
in  process  of  building.  After  its  completion  Mr.  Cooke  sent 
the  deed  for  it  with  the  following  letter : 

"  Chelten  Hills,  Montgomery  Co.  Pa. 
"  June  6th,  1859. 
"My  Dear  friend  and  Pastor:  I  send  herewith  a  deed  for  the  cot- 
tage and  lot  which  you  have  known  for  some  time  was  intended 
for  you.  It  is  now  yours,  its  value  or  cost  fully  paid  up  and  re- 
ceipted for.  And  it  comes  to  you  as  a  hearty  and  sincere  offering 
of  myself  and  wife,  as  a  small  testimony  of  our  gratitude  to  our  God 
and  Saviour  that,  in  His  good  providence  we  have  so  long  enjoyed 
your  teachings  as  our  pastor,  and  your  intercourse  and  sympathy  as 

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a  friend.  We  do  indeed  feel  grateful,  for  ourselves  and  for  our 
children,  that  God  has  raised  you  up  as  an  instrument  of  so  much 
good,  not  only  to  ourselves  but  to  so  many  thousands,  who  have 
profited  by  your  untiring  efforts  and  instructions.  And  we  desire, 
in  making  this  offering  to  one  whom  we  feel  to  be  a  true  servant  of 
the  blessed  Master;  to  realize  the  fact  that  in  giving  to  you,  we 
are  giving  to  Him  from  whom  we  receive  all  things,  both  spiritual 
and  temporal.  We  ask  you  to  accept  it  in  the  name  and  for  the  sake 
of  Jesus,  and  if  it  will  ever  add  anything  to  your  comfort  or  health, 
or  will  in  any  way  cheer  you  onward,  or  in  any  way  strengthen  you 
in  your  confidence  and  trust  in  the  promises  and  goodness  of  God, 
let  your  thanks  be  entirely  given  to  him  alone  who  owns  all  things, 
and  who  has  put  it  into  our  hearts  to  do  thus  much  as  his  stewards 
to  cheer  and  encourage  His  Faithful  servant. 

"It  is  a  matter  of  regret  (although  we  suppose  it  was  somewhat 
unavoidable)  that  others  should  here  know  of  this  action  on  our 
part  for  our  God  knows  we  desire  only  to  glorify  Him.  It  is  indeed 
a  great  blessing  thus  to  have  been  made  His  instruments. 

"  In  accepting  this  testimonial  of  our  love  and  sympathy  we  do 
not  wish  you  to  consider  that  you  come  under  the  slightest  obliga- 
tions in  any  way  to  occupy  the  new  home  for  a  longer  or  a  shorter 
period,  or  to  give  us  or  the  neighborhood  any  further  advantages 
from  your  occasional  or  temporary  residence  there  than  such  as  you 
will  feel  is  not  irksome  to  give.  You  need  rest  and  recreation  when 
you  come  to  the  country,  and  it  is  far  from  our  thought  to  even 
hint  at  depriving  you  of  any  portion  of  these  hours  of  relaxation. 

"  We  shall  enjoy  your  society  and  that  of  your  dear  family  when 
you  are  near  us,  and  we  anticipate,  if  God  so  orders  it,  many  a  de- 
lightful season  spent  together  there. 

"  Should  you  be  called  by  God's  Holy  Spirit,  to  go  elsewhere, 
faith  will  lead  us  to  believe  it  is  all  for  God's  Glory.  Under  such 
or  any  other  circumstances,  you  are  to  consider  your  self  as  entirely 
free  to  sell  or  otherwise  dispose  of  the  property  as  seems  best  to 
yourself  and  family;  it  is  yours,  and  may  God  bless  to  you  and  your 
dear  ones  this  free  and  gladsome  offering  of  our  hearts,  is  the  prayer 
of  your  friends,  who  love  you  all  for  your  own  sakes,  as  well  as  for 
Christ's.! 

"Truly  and  sincerely, 

"  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jay  Cooke.'' 

1  Subsequently  this  cottage  was  occupied  for  many  years  by  Eev.  Eob- 

ert  J.  Parvin,  Rector  of  St.  Paul's,  Cheltenham. 

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^i^tot^  of  fe>t  paursf  (f  pisfcopal  C$utc8 

In  1862  he  was  called  to  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany, 
Philadelphia,  then  a  large  and  influential  congregation  (now 
consolidated  with  St.  Luke's),  and  remained  there  until  Janu- 
ary 29,  1881,  when  he  became  the  rector  emeritus  until  May 
22,  1882.  He  then  accepted  the  rectorship  of  the  Church  of 
the  Covenant,  at  which  post  his  useful  life  closed. 

During  his  great  career  he  preached  thousands  of  sermons. 
Over  fifteen  hundred  of  his  written  sermons  were  in  his 
library  at  his  death  all  carefully  indexed  and  dated.  He 
received  the  degree  of  D.D.  from  Kenyon  College,  Ohio,  in 
1862,  and  was  from  1869  to  1887  a  trustee  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania. 

His  books  for  children  have  never  been  excelled  in  their 
aptitude  to  the  young,  and  the  pleasing  form  in  which  they 
convey  religious  truth.  While  they  are  called  sermons,  and 
each  paragraph  is  expository  of  some  passage  of  Scripture,  they 
are  so  simple,  so  full  of  striking  and  apposite  illustrations, 
that  a  child  will  read  them  with  as  much  curiosity  as  he, 
or  she  would  a  narrative  of  travel  or  adventure,  and  certainly 
with  far  more  profit.  So  popular  were  these  books,  that  they 
were  translated  into  no  less  than  eighteen  languages — French, 
German,  Spanish,  Italian,  Siamese,  Hindustanese,  Chinese, 
Bulgarian,  Japanese,  Arabic,  Armenian,  Urdic,  Tamil,  Dacata, 
Zulu,  Grebo,  Swedish  and  Dutch.  Among  his  publications  in 
this  field  were:  ''The  Jewel  Case,"  "The  Best  Things,"  "The 
King's  Highway,"  "The  Safe  Compass,"  "Bible  Blessings," 
"The  Great  Pilot,"  "Bible  Jewels,"  "The  Wonder  Case," 
"Bible  Wonders,"  "Nature  Wonders,"  "Leaves  from  the 
Tree,"  "Rills  from  the  Fountain,"  "The  Jewish  Taber- 
nacle," "Giants  and  Wonderful  Things,"  "Rays  from  the 
Sun  of  Righteousness,"  "The  King  in  His  Beauty,"  "Peb- 
bles from  the  Brook,"  "Bible  Promises,"  "Bible  Warnings," 
'  *  Covenant  Names. ' ' 

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Among  his  published  sermons  were:  "Anniversary  Oration" 
before  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  February  22,  1836; 
"The  Pastor's  Offering  to  His  Flock,"  A  funeral  Discourse 
delivered  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  March  7,  1847,  on  the  occa- 
sion of  the  death  of  John  Farr,  Esq. ;  "Sermons"  in  St.  Paul's 
Church,  First  Sundays  in  Advent,  1847,  1850, 1851 ;  "The  Age 
and  its  Duties,"  two  Sermons  preached  in  St.  Paul's,  Decem- 
ber 29,  1850,  January  4,  1851 ;  ' '  Sermon  on  the  death  of  Rev. 
James  H.  Fowles,  "April  9, 1854 ; ' '  Sermon  at  Centennial  Anni- 
versary of  St.  Paul's  Church,"  November  4,  1860;  "God's 
marvellous  doing  for  the  Nation,"  A  Sermon  on  the  day  ap- 
pointed by  the  President,  in  the  Church  of  the  Epiphany, 
Philadelphia,  August  6,  1863;  "God's  Interest  in  the  Death 
of  His  People, ' '  a  Tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  Rev.  Robert  J. 
Parvin  of  St.  Paurs,^  Cheltenham,  1868;  "The  Abrahamic 
Covenant,"  a  Sermon  before  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Asso- 
ciation for  the  promotion  of  Christianity  among  the  Jews, 
March  30,  1873 ;  ' '  The  Present  Crisis  in  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  and  the  duty  of  Evangelical  men  in  reference  to 
it,"  preached  in  the  Church  of  the  Ephiphany,  May  31,  1874. 

Dr.  Newton  married,  July  31,  1839,  Lydia,  daughter  of 
Lawrence  Greatorex,  of  the  Brandywine  Paper  Mills  of  Wil- 
mington, Delaware.  Their  sons,  Richard  Heber  Newton  and 
William  Wilberforce  Newton,  became  clergymen.  Mrs.  New- 
ton died  in  April,  1887,  and  Dr.  Newton  one  month  later,  in 
his  seventy-fifth  year.  Both  are  buried  in  Laurel  Hill 
Cemetery, 

The  Philadelphia  Evening  Bulletin  of  May  26,  1887,  speak- 
ing editorially,  said : 

2  St.  Paul 's  Cheltenham,  owes  its  name  and  its  origin  to  Old  St.  Paul 's 
and  the  efforts  of  Dr.  Newton,  who  preached  the  Consecration  Sermon. 
Mr.  Parvin  was  its  first  rector.  A  mural  tablet  in  the  church  testifies  to 
the  affection  of  the  people  for  him. — Hotchkin's  County  Clergy  of  Penn- 
sylvania, p.  80. 

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"  There  have  been  men  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  whose 
fame  was  greater  than  that  of  the  late  Richard  Newton,  and  whose 
talents  may  have  been  more  briUiant;  but  there  have  been  very  few 
whose  lives  have  been  purer,  more  upright,  and  more  in  unison  with 
the  true  teachings  of  the  Christian  faith. 

"  His  death  will  carry  with  it  more  of  a  sense  of  loss  to  the  thou- 
sands who  have  come  within  reach  of  his  ministrations  and  teachings 
than  would  the  death  of  other  divines  whose  names  just  now  are 
more  often  heard  in  the  church  world. 

"  Dr,  Newton  was  so  unlike  the  majority  of  men  who  now  fill  the 
pulpit,  and  had  so  many  of  the  fine,  old  fashioned  notions  of  the  dig- 
nity and  usefulness  of  his  sacred  calling  that  he  seemed  to  be  su- 
perior to  most  of  the  faults  and  follies  which  have  crept  into  his 
profession.  Indeed,  we  doubt  very  much  whether  any  one  man  in 
the  Episcopal  Church  in  this  community,  since  the  time  of  William 
White,  has  done  more,  in  a  comparatively  quiet  and  unobtrusive  way, 
to  strengthen  it,  and  make  new  believers  for  it,  than  did  Richard 
Newton. 

"  This  influence  was  due,  to  a  large  extent,  to  the  remarkable  fac- 
ulty which  he  exercised  in  conveying  truth  to  the  minds  of  children 
and  of  young  people.  Even  men  and  women  of  mature  years,  whose 
education  was  limited,  seemed  to  understand  and  appreciate  him  as 
they  did  few  others  of  his  denomination.  He  did  not  preach  for 
the  select  few,  he  did  not  make  his  sermons  refined  disquisitions  on 
points  of  theological  hair-splitting;  he  did  not  try  to  awe  or  impress 
his  hearers  with  displays  of  the  learning  which  he  possessed.  His 
great  purpose  in  the  pulpit  always  was  to  make  himself  understood, 
even  by  auditors  of  less  than  ordinary  intelligence. 

"  In  doing  this  there  was  a  simplicity  and  earnestness  in  his  work 
which  was  beautiful  to  contemplate,  and  which  went  right  home  to 
the  hearts  of  his  hearers.  The  lectures  and  books  which  he  pre- 
pared for  the  use  of  children  were  especially  marked  by  this  quality, 
and  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  both  in  this  country  and  in 
England,  can  count  these  productions  as  being  one  of  the  sources  of 
much  of  its  latter  day  strength. 

"  In  these  days,  when  clergymen  look  so  much  to  public  notoriety 
for  their  reward,  and  depend  so  much  upon  sensational  effects 
for  their  popularity,  and  are  so  careless  about  the  true  dignity  of 
their  sacred  office,  the  example  of  such  a  man  as  Richard  Newton 
should  be  set  conspicuously  before  them. 

"  With  his  fine  scholarship,  and  his  strong  powers  of  mind  and 
his  remarkable  energy,  he  might  have  been,  had  he  so  wished  to,  a 

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greater  figure  in  the  eyes  of  the  world.  But  the  vanity  of  having 
his  name  sounded  on  the  tongues  of  men  never  drew  him  away  from 
his  noble  conception  of  the  duties  of  a  minister.  His  life  was  for  his 
church,  for  his  people,  for  his  Master.  He  loved  that  church,  and 
he  loved  his  people ;  and  the  life  of  his  Master  was  ever  before  him, 
as  a  daily  incentive  to  real  good,  and  not  as  a  mere  model  for  rhetor- 
ical sermons.  No  scandals  hovered  over  his  name.  No  one  could 
ever  mention  that  name  with  flippancy  or  disrespect. 

"Not  simply  among  Christians,  but  among  men  who  are  careless 
of  spiritual  things,  his  was  a  career  that  always  commanded  the  true 
respect  which  the  world  gratefully  accords  to  an  honest  Christian 
and  upright  man;  and  there  are  not  too  many  clergymen  to-day  of 
whom  the  same  can  be  honestly  said  when  they  pass  away." 


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THE  RECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  GODDARD 

1862-1866 

0/^^^  HE  Reverend  Kingston  Goddard,  D.D.,  rector  from 
d  '^  I  Ju^e,  1862,  to  January,  1866,  son  of  John  God- 
M  I  I  dard  of  Philadelphia,  by  his  wife  Mary  Beck, 
^^^^r  was  bom  at  Philadelphia,  October  20,  1813,  and 
died  at  Richmond,  Staten  Island,  New  York, 
October  24,  1875.  His  maternal  grandfather,  Paul  Beck, 
Esq.,^  was  one  of  Philadelphia's  most  eminent  public-spirited 
citizens  as  well  as  an  earnest  supporter  of  St.  Paul's,  and  the 
grandson,  deprived  of  his  mother  at  an  early  age,  had  for 
many  years  the  fostering  care  and  example  of  the  blameless 
life  of  his  grandsire. 

Educated  in  the  schools  of  Philadelphia  and  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  from  which  latter  institution  of  learning  he 
was  graduated  with  honors  in  1833,  he  was,  in  1836,  graduated 
at  the  General  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
in  New  York  City.  His  first  charge,  while  still  a  deacon,  was 
that  of  St.  Anna's,  Fishkill  Landing,  New  York,  1835-1837, 
after  which  he  served  acceptably  in  the  parishes  of  Christ 
Church,  Brooklyn,  Emmanuel  Church,  Brooklyn,  The  Atone- 
ment, Philadelphia,  and  Christ  Church,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

While  at  Cincinnati,  the  call  came  to  him  from  St.  Paul's. 

1  See  sketch  of,  in  Simpson 's  ' '  Lives  of  Eminent  Philadelphians, ' '  pp. 
37^9. 

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REV.    KINGSTON    GODDARD,    D.D. 

RECTOR    OF    ST.    PAUL'S    1862-1866. 


ISitctot^^iV  ot  2Dr*  c^oDtiatti 


In  accepting  it,  Dr.  Goddard  was  but  coming  to  his  own — to 
a  parish  that  none  better  understood  than  he.  During  his 
rectorship  at  the  Atonement,  in  connection  with  his  words  of 
tribute  at  the  Memorial  Meeting,  held  to  commemorate  the 
life  work  and  noble  death  of  his  friend  and  fellow-laborer,  the 
Rev.  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  he  had  said  of  St.  Paul 's : 

"In  May,  1829,  his  father  [Rev.  Stephen  Tyng]  removed  to  this 
city  and  became  the  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church.  And,  my  Chris- 
tian friends,  I  desire  to  pay  the  tribute  of  praise  to  that  congrega- 
tion, among  whom  the  eminent  and  venerable  Dr.  Tyng  ministered. 
They  have  had  many  servants  of  God,  and  have  always  loved  and 
revered  them.  They  have  had  the  Gospel  proclaimed  in  their  pulpit 
with  a  degree  of  earnestness  and  fidelity  that  has  never  been  sur- 
passed, and  they  have  always  listened  to  it.  They  have  buried  rec- 
tors, but,  thank  God,  the  disgrace  is  yet  to  come  upon  them  of  turn- 
ing one  from  their  pulpit  and  closing  their  doors.  It  was  while  the 
father  was  rector  of  that  church,  that  the  son  was  brought  under  the 
influence  of  Sunday-school  instruction — in  the  Sunday  School  of  that 
church  he  was  first  introduced  to  the  knowledge  of  the  truth  as  it  is 
in  Jesus." 

The  statement  as  to  the  Sunday-school  of  St.  Paul's  was 
equally  true  of  the  speaker,  for  he  too  had  begun  the  Christian 
life  at  St.  Paul's,  where  later  he  was  to  become  a  faithful 
parish  priest  and  eloquent  preacher. 

He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical 
Society  in  1857,  and  Kenyon  College  conferred  upon  him  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in  1860.  He  was  also  Grand 
Chaplain,  of  the  Grand  Lodge  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Pennsylvania. 

In  1866  he  accepted  the  rectorship  of  St.  Andrew's,  Rich- 
mond, Staten  Island,  New  York,  at  which  post  he  died.  He 
married  Matilda  Susan,  daughter  of  William  Seaman. 

Dr.  Goddard 's  publications  were  limited  to  sermons,  "by 
request,"  to  which  requests  he  acceded  with  reluctance,  feel- 
ing that  the  importance  of  what  was  said  in  the  pulpit  de- 
pended largely  upon  the  manner  of  its  saying:  ** Sermon  on 

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Thanksgiving-day,"  December  13,  1840,  in  Christ  Church, 
Brooklyn;  "Address  at  first  Annual  exhibition  of  Ingenuity 
and  Design,  held  in  Philadelphia  by  the  Pennsylvania  Insti- 
tute," May  1-9,  1857;  "The  Freedom  granted  by  Christ,"  A 
sermon  preached  in  the  Church  of  the  Atonement,  before  the 
Artillery  Corps  of  "Washington  Grays,  on  Saturday,  July  4, 
1858;  "The  Poor  in  the  Keeping  of  God"  (Philadelphia, 
1857);  "Funeral  Sermon  on  Caldwell  B.  Mitchell"  (Phila- 
delphia, 1857);  "Sermon  on  the  life  and  character  of  Wil- 
liam H.  Aspinwall,  1807-1875,"  preached  at  Clifton,  Staten 
Island,  February  14,  1875. 


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REV.    R.    HEBER    NEWTON,    D.D. 

RECTOR  OF  ST.   PAUL'S  1866-1868. 


EECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  NEWTON 

1866-1868 

HE  Reverend  Richard  Heber  Newton,  D.D.,  rector 

/^  from  February  18,  1866,  to  December  9,  1868, 

M     I  eldest   son    of    the    Reverend   Richard   Newton, 

^^^^J^      D.D.,  by  his  wife,  Lydia  Greatorex,  was  bom  at 

Philadelphia,    October    31,    1840,    and    died    at 

Scarborough,  New  York,  December  19,  1914. 

His  education  was  obtained  at  home  and  at  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  at  which  he  matriculated  in  1857,  but  was 
obliged  to  leave  at  the  close  of  his  sophomore  year.  He 
entered  the  Divinity  School  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  Philadelphia,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1862. 
Ill  health  however  had  interrupted  his  studies  and  threatened 
a  discontinuance.  In  this  emergency  a  sea  trip  was  suggested 
by  his  father's  friend  and  vestryman,  William  Cummings, 
Esq.,  a  well-known  merchant,  who  fitted  up  a  cabin  on  one 
of  his  vessels  and  sent  him  on  a  voyage  to  Liverpool,  England. 
The  following  letter  from  Mr.  Newton  explains  the  incident: 

"  On  Board  Ship,  Wm.  Cummings, 
"  April  25th,  1861. 
"My  Kind  friend: 

"  I  desire  simply  to  express  my  sense  of  gratitude  to  you  for  your 
thoughtful  and  generous  kindness  towards  me.     My  mind  had  been 
uncertain  as  to  what  would  be  the  best  feasible  plan  for  me  to  pursue 
12  161 


^i^totif  ot  Ibt  ^mV0  episcopal  Cl^utc^ 

in  seeking  the  establishment  of  my  health  &  strength.  My  health 
has  been  so  much  improved  of  late,  by  God's  blessing  on  the 
means  constantly  used,  that  it  seemed  as  though  the  critical  point  of 
my  life,  in  regard  to  health  had  been  safely  passed  &  that  my  con- 
stitution had  taken  a  favorable  change.  Knowing  that  my  constitu- 
tion is  such,  that  in  human  probabilities  I  may  work  for  vigorous 
health,  if  the  present  stage  of  life  can  be  safely  passed.  I  was  of 
course  very  anxious  to  do  everything  in  my  power  to  strengthen 
myself.  Your  kind  offer  appeared  to  present  the  very  opening  that 
was  needed,  though  the  thought  of  a  sea  trip  had  not  previously  been 
much  in  my  mind.  And  I  trust  that  it  is  the  hand  of  Providence 
that  has  directed  my  attention  in  the  present  summer's  trip.  &  that 
through  the  blessing  of  my  Heavenly  Father,  I  shall  return  renewed 
and  established  in  health  &  strength. 

"  I  value  health  as  the  necessary  qualification  for  usefulness  in 
the  cause  to  which  my  energies  of  mind  and  body,  (Sj  my  life  have 
been  consecrated. 

"  It  is  my  earnest  desire  &  prayer  that  God  will  make  me  an  in- 
strument of  doing  great  good  to  the  souls  of  men ;  &  in  this  work  I 
wish  to  spend  my  whole  life. 

"  But  I  feel  that  without  strength,  I  am  of  little  use,  and  so  I  re- 
joice to  have  the  opportunity  of  seeking  that  strength,  even  though 
it  is  a  trial  to  separate  from  home  &  friends.  And  therefore  I 
value  and  esteem  your  kindness,  as  enabling  me  to  prepare  physically 
for  God's  work. 

"  I  trust  that  should  I  be  spared  to  return  home  again,  God  will 
also  fit  me  in  soul  for  that  work  &  bless  me  in  it  to  the  salvation  of 
many  souls;  &  that  you  may  have  the  pleasure  of  knowing  that  you 
have  been  instrumental  in  fitting  an  humble  laborer  in  the  Master's 
vineyard  for  any  usefulness  he  may  be  granted. 

"  And  may  My  Saviour  &  Master  reward  you  as  it  could  never 
be  in  my  power  to  do,  by  giving  you  freely  of  that  blessing,  '  that 
maketh  truly  rich  &  addeth  no  sorrow.' 

"  Very  Respectfully, 
"&  Sincerely, 

"R.  Heber  Newton. 

"  William  Cummings,  Esq., 
"  Pine  St.  Wharf,  Phila."i 


1  William  Cummings,  son  of  George  Cummings  (1759-1807),  and  Eliza- 
beth Tate  (1761-1807),  was  born  Feb.  6,  1806,  at  No.  28  Plumb  St.  (now 
232  Monroe  St.),  District  of  Southwark,  Philadelphia.  His  parents  and 
grandfather,  Simon  Cummings,  are  buried  in  St.  Peter's  Church  yard. 

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Mr.  Newton  was  made  a  deacon  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Phila- 
delphia, by  Bishop  Alonzo  Potter  in  June,  1862,  and  ordained 
priest  in  the  same  church  in  1863,  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  William  H. 
Odenheimer,  Bishop  of  New  Jersey,  He  was  an  assistant  to 
his  father  for  two  years  and  subsequently,  1863-1866,  rector 
of  Trinity  Church,  Sharon  Springs,  New  York. 

Elected  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia,  upon 
motion  of  John  W.  Thomas,  he  served  from  1867  to  1870, 
resigning  to  accept  the  rectorship  of  the  Anthon  Memorial 
Church  in  New  York,  known  later  as  All  Soul's  Church. 

It  was  during  his  rectorship  that  St.  Paul's  celebrated  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  its  Sunday-school. 

On  the  twentieth  of  February,  1816,  a  little  more  than  one 
hundred  years  ago,  the  young  men  belonging  to  St.  Paul's 
met  for  the  purpose  of  taking  into  consideration  the  propriety 
of  forming  a  society  to  conduct  a  Sunday-school.  The  meet- 
He  was  brought  up  by  his  uncle  of  the  same  name,  and  he  was  married  hy 
Kev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.  Tyng  to  Emily  E.  Alexander,  daughter  of  Eichard 
Alexander,  at  St.  Paul's  Church,  June  1,  1831,  at  five  o'clock  A.M.,  so  as 
to  be  in  time  for  the  stage  to  Pottsville.  Subsequently  he  returned  to 
Philadelphia  and  from  1832  to  1869  was  a  well  known  Merchant.  He 
built  and  owned  the  following  vessels,  Schooners,  Kathleen  and  John  Mc- 
Crea.  Brigs,  Baron  Stranger,  Pennsylvania,  Norris  Stanley,  Delaware, 
Joseph  Cowperthwait,  Emily  Cummings,  Clara,  Huntress  and  Calvert; 
Barques,  Mary  Irvine,  Cora,  Linda,  Fairmount,  Aaron  I.  Harvey,  Ann 
Elizabeth,  and  Margaret  Hugg;  Ships,  Frigate  Bird,  and  William  Cum- 
mings. He  had  an  extensive  trade  with  the  West  Indies,  Bahia,  Eio 
Janeiro  and  Montevideo,  South  America,  as  well  as  Goree,  Gambia  and 
Sierra  Leone,  Africa;  Hong  Kong,  China,  and  San  Francisco,  California. 
During  the  civil  war  he  was  an  active  member  of  the  Union  League  and 
helped  to  equip  the  118  Penna.  Volunteers,  or  Corn  Exchange  Eegiment 
for  the  field.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Girard  National  Bank,  Commer- 
cial Exchange  Ass'n,  Insurance  Co.  of  North  America,  Huntingdon  & 
Broad  Top  E.  E.  Co.,  Trustee  of  City  Ice  boats,  manager  of  the  Howard 
Hospital  and  Merchants  Fund  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  founders, 
vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  a  prominent  Mason  and  a  member  of 
Lodge  No.  2  for  63  years  preceding  his  death,  December  17,  1889. 
He  was  Master  of  this  Lodge  in  1837-38-39  during  the  Morgan  excite- 
ment.   He  is  buried  in  his  vault  in  St.  Paul 's  Church  yard. 

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ing,  held  in  the  vestry-room  of  the  church,  during  Dr.  Pil- 
more's  rectorship,  was  called  by  John  P.  Bankson,  who  had 
already  established  a  Sunday-school  in  connection  with  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church,  northwest  corner  of  Third  and 
Arch  Streets,  that  being  the  first  Sunday-school  in  the  city. 
St.  Paul 's  was  the  second  in  order,  and  was  the  first  Sunday- 
school  organized  in  connection  with  any  Episcopal  Church  in 
this  city,  or  in  this  land.  The  movement  was  then  consid- 
ered as  of  doubtful  expediency,  but  in  this,  as  in  many  other 
religious  matters,  St.  Paul's  was  a  pioneer. 

Twenty-one  names  were  enrolled  as  teachers,  and  these 
teachers  were  divided  into  two  committees,  each  committee  to 
conduct  the  exercises  of  the  school  on  alternate  Sundays. 
The  names  were  as  follows :  Messrs.  John  P.  Bankson,  Richard 
Thompson,  R.  Pigott,  J.  Bason,  J.  Golder,  Jesse  R.  Burden, 
John  C.  Pechin,  Peter  Van  Pelt,  George  Glentworth,  John 
Lohra,  John  Toy,  Thomas  Moore,  William  Alexander,  R. 
Body,  Lloyd  Bankson,  A.  Claxton,  J.  M.  Adams,  John  Mur- 
ray, William  Murdoch,  Ezra  Dodge,  Charles  Stockton. 

The  founder  of  the  female  school  was  Mrs.  Susannah  B. 
Shober,  grand-daughter  of  Col.  Blathwaite  Jones,  a  Mother  in 
Israel,  who  for  many  years  acted  as  its  superintendent  with 
great  efficiency  and  success.  For  the  first  fifteen  years  of  its 
existence  the  Sunday-schools  did  not  meet  in  the  church,  but 
at  private  residences  in  the  neighborhood. 

On  May  21,  1866,  the  semi-centenary  was  celebrated.  This 
interesting  occasion  drew  together  a  large  number  of  the 
friends  of  old  St.  Paul's  from  all  quarters  of  the  city,  and 
over  sixteen  hundred  persons  were  present.  Many  who  were 
formerly  faithful  workers  there,  returned  to  join  in  the  cele^ 
bration  of  the  evening;  some  who  had  not  been  within  those 
walls  for  years,  were  drawn  to  the  scene  of  their  early  instruc- 
tion,   and  the   teachers   and  scholars   of  the   past   mingled 

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with  those  of  the  present,  so  that  the  schools  of  1816  and  of 
1866,  the  founding  and  the  commemoration,  alike  were  rep- 
resented. 

A  large  number  of  the  clergy  were  present,  among  whom 
were  the  Rev.  Drs.  Tyng,  Newton,  Watson,  Spear,  Pratt, 
Claxton,  Thos.  G.  Allen,  Edmund  Roberts,  George  Bring- 
hurst,  J.  Sanders  Reed,  Robert  C.  Matlack,  Samuel  Durborow, 
J.  R.  Moore,  Charles  Fisher,  Snyder  B.  Symes,  W.  Erben 
and  J.  P.  Fugett. 

The  subjoined  letter  of  regret  was  received  from  the  Right 
Rev.  William  H.  Odenheimer,  of  New  Jersey,  formerly  a 
scholar  in  this  school: 

"Burlington,  N.  J.,  June  26,  1866. 
"Reverend  and  Dear  Sir: 

"  I  regret  that  diocesan  engagements  deprived  me  of  the  satisfac- 
tion of  joining  with  you,  and  our  friends,  in  the  semi-centennary 
solemities  of  the  Sunday-schools  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia. 
I  feel  that  I  have  a  right  to  share  in  your  joys,  for  I  have  the  honor 
of  having  been  a  member  of  the  Sunday-school,  and  also  of  the 
Bible-class  of  dear  Old  St.  Paul's;  and  the  pleasant  memories  of  the 
men  and  incidents  of  those  days  still  live  in  my  heart.  My  old  super- 
intendent full  of  zeal,  and  my  old  class  teacher  a  walking  cyclopaedia 
of  catechetical  lore!  still  live  to  receive  my  thanks  for  their  loving 
care;  but  the  gentle-hearted  Parr  has  gone  to  his  rest.  What  a 
goodly  line  of  pastors  guided  the  flock  in  those  days.  The  apostolic 
Allen;  the  glowing  hearted  Tyng,  the  Saint  Paul  of  our  American 
Church;  the  energetic  McCoskrey;  and  the  saintly  May.  I  also  re- 
call the  admiration  I  felt,  and  which  years  have  deepened,  at  the 
pious  works  of  those  christian  women,  the  true  Sisters  of  charity  in 
old  St.  Paul's,  who,  without  ostentation,  devoted  themselves  to  the 
education  of  the  young  and  the  care  of  the  poor  and  afflicted.  God 
bless  the  memory  of  those  who  have  '  gone  before,'  God  speed  those 
who  still  remain  to  work  for  Christ,  in  the  persons  of  little  children, 
and  the  poor. 

"  It  is  joy  to  all  hearts  that  the  venerable  parish  seems  to  increase 
in  strength  with  increasing  years;  and  like  some  grand  oak,  flings 
out  new  and  right  noble  branches  to  shelter  those  who  abide  under 

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its  shadow.     St.  Paul's  of  the  present  day  is  as  worthy  of  commen- 
dation as  St.  Paul's  of  the  olden  times. 
"  God  bless  you  and  the  congregation. 

"  Very  faithfully  yours, 

"William  H.  Odenheimeb. 
"  Rev.  R.  Heber  Newton." 

Letters  were  also  received  from  the  Right  Reverend  Samuel 
Allen  MeCoskrey  of  Michigan  and  others,  regretting  their  ina- 
bility to  be  present.  The  Rev.  Robert  C.  Matlack,  formerly  a 
scholar,  then  a  teacher  in  the  schools,  subsequently  assistant 
minister,  led  the  congregation  in  prayer. 

The  Rev,  John  Sanders  Reed,  formerly  superintendent  of 
the  female  school,  and  assistant  minister,  read  the  Evening 
Lessons. 

The  rector,  Rev.  R.  Heber  Newton,  preached  an  appro- 
priate sermon,  from  which  the  accompanying  statements  have 
been  substantially  taken: 

Among  the  good  things  resulting  from  this  school  was  the 
American  Sunday-school  Union,  one  of  its  offspring,  for  this 
noble  institution  grew  out  of  the  Philadelphia  Sunday-school 
Union,  which  was  started  by  John  P.  Bankson,  who  was  then 
the  superintendent  of  St.  Paul 's  schools. 

During  the  period  of  fifty  years  in  which  these  schools 
have  been  in  operation  at  least  three  thousand  scholars  have 
passed  through  the  schools,  under  the  charge  of  three  hundred 
teachers. 

If  it  were  possible  to  follow  the  history  of  those  three  thou- 
sand scholars  and  trace  out  the  influence  for  good  brought  to 
bear  upon  them,  and  by  them  imparted  to  others,  through  the 
agency  of  that  faithful  band  of  three  hundred  teachers,  how 
deeply  interesting  it  would  be!  It  is  impossible  to  do  this 
now,  but  it  will  be  done  at  last.  "The  day  will  declare  it." 
And,  when  in  the  light  of  that  great  day  of  revelation,  the 

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good  thus  accomplished,  in  ten  thousand  forms,  is  made 
apparent,  we  shall  see  and  understand  what  a  fountain  of 
life,  what  a  hill  of  blessing  the  schools  of  this  mother  of 
churches  has  been. 

Since  1830,  one  thousand  persons  have  been  confirmed  from 
this  church ;  and  as  the  average  proportion  of  candidates  from 
the  school  has  been  from  one  half  to  two  thirds  of  the  number, 
it  is  safe  to  compute  that,  of  the  scholars  under  instruction  in 
these  schools,  between  five  hundred  and  six  hundred  have 
connected  themselves  with  this  church  by  confirmation  since 
1830.  How  many  have  afterwards  united  themselves  with 
other  churches  we  have  no  means  of  ascertaining. 

The  largest  accessions  from  the  schools  to  the  church  in  one 
year  were  in  1831  and  1858,  when  in  the  former  year,  between 
fifty  and  sixty,  and  in  the  latter  year,  between  thirty  and 
forty  young  persons  were  confirmed. 

The  Sunday-schools  remained  in  a  prosperous  condition, 
but  during  the  Civil  War,  1861-1866,  so  many  of  the  young 
men  from  St.  Paul 's  enlisted  in  the  army  of  the  United  States 
for  the  defense  of  their  country,  their  city  and  homes,  that 
the  male  Bible  class  had  to  be  discontinued  until  the  end  of 
the  war,  when  it  was  resumed  with  fresh  interest. 

Of  the  scholars  and  teachers  of  St.  Paul's  who  entered 
the  ministry  previous  to  the  year  1833,  there  is  no  record. 
Among  those  who  have  become  clergymen  since  that  period 
the  following  were  mentioned :'' 

Rev.  "William  C.  Russell,  now  deceased,  was  a  teacher  in 
the  year  1826. 

Rev.  Charles  Emlen  Pleasants,  deceased,  was  a  teacher  in 
1832. 

Rev.  Edmund  Roberts,  rector  of  St.  Luke 's,  Bustleton,  was 
a  scholar  in  1832. 

2  It  must  be  remembered  that  the  "now,"  refers  to  the  year  1866. 

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Rev.  Edward  Conway  Jones,  long  the  faithful  missionary 
to  the  insane  in  the  almshouse,  now  deceased,  was  a  scholar 
in  1833. 

Rev.  Benjamin  Watson,  D.D.,  now  rector  of  the  Church  of 
the  Atonement,  in  this  city,  was  a  scholar  in  1833. 

Rt.  Rev.  William  Henry  Odenheimer,  D.D.,  now  Bishop  of 
New  Jersey,  was  a  scholar  and  a  teacher  in  1834. 

Rev.  Dudley  Atkins  Tyng,  rector  of  the  Church  of  the 
Epiphany,  and  then  of  the  Church  of  the  Covenant,  and  now 
deceased,  was  a  scholar  in  1833. 

Rev.  T.  Alfred  Starkey,  D.D.,  now  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was 
a  scholar  in  1834. 

Rev.  William  Huckel,  of  New  York,  was  a  scholar  in  1840, 
and  a  teacher  in  1846,  rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Evangelists, 
in  1852. 

Rev.  Henry  A.  Coit,  D.D.,  now  of  New  Hampshire,  was  a 
teacher  in  1846.  First  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  School,  at  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire.' 

Rev.  George  A.  Latimer,  now  rector  of  Christ  Church, 
Pottstown,  was  a  scholar  in  1836,  and  a  teacher  in  1849. 
Founder  of  St.  John's  Church,  Philadelphia. 

Rev.  Robert  C.  Matlack,  now  rector  of  the  Church  of  the 
Nativity,  in  this  city,  was  a  teacher  in  1853. 

Rev.  Robert  B.  Claxton,  D.D.,  now  professor  in  the  Divinity 
School,  was  a  teacher  in  1836. 

Rev.  John  Martin,  now  of  Washington,  D.  C,  was  a  teacher 
in  1833. 

3  Henry  Augustus  Coit,  born  January  20,  1830,  at  Wilmington,  Dela- 
ware, where  his  father,  Eev.  Joseph  Howland  Coit,  DD.  was  Eector  of 
St.  Andrew's  Church.  Attended  University  of  Pennsylvania;  was  pro- 
fessor St.  James  College,  Washington  County,  Maryland;  married  Miss 
Mary  Bowman  Wheeler,  March  27,  1856,  in  Church  of  Epiphany,  Phila- 
delphia, just  before  he  removed  to  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  to  become 
first  Eector  of  the  celebrated  St.  Paul's  School. 

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Rev.  Chas.  R.  Hale,  now  chaplain  in  the  U.  S.  Navy,  was  a 
teacher  in  1855. 

Rev.  Henry  S.  Getz,  now  of  Mahanoy  City,  was  a  teacher 
in  1852,  and  superintendent  in  1853. 

Rev.  John  Sanders  Reed,  now  rector  of  Gloria  Dei  Church, 
was  superintendent  of  the  female  school  in  1864.* 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Durborow,  of  the  Church  of  the  Evan- 
gelists, Philadelphia,  was  a  scholar. 

The  Rev.  Christian  Wiltberger,  the  first  rector  of  Emmanuel 
Episcopal  Church,  Kensington,  1837,  was  also  a  teacher.  He 
died  in  August,  1855,  and  was  buried  in  the  family  vault. 
His  ancestor  of  the  same  name  was  a  communicant,  and  made 
the  silver  baptismal  bowl  (1805),  and  other  silver  used  by 
the  church,  as  shown  in  Appendix  C. 

The  Rev.  R.  Heber  Newton,  the  present  rector  [1866]  hav- 
ing the  spiritual  charge  of  the  schools,  was  first  a  scholar 
here,  from  the  infant  school  to  the  Bible  class,  and  then  a 
teacher  in  1856. 

There  are,  at  this  time  [1866],  four  young  men,  candidates 
for  the  ministry  in  this  diocese,  who  have  been  both  scholars, 

4  Eev.  Dr.  J.  Sanders  Reed  attended  Episcopal  Academy  and  was  gradu- 
ated at  the  Philadelphia  Divinity  School,  1865;  was  Deacon,  1864;  Priest, 
1865;  Eeetor  of  Gloria  Dei  (Old  Siwedes),  and  later  Trinity  Church, 
Watertown,  New  York.  Author  of  many  articles  and  books,  among  them : 
"The  Pedigree  of  a  Preacher,"  "A  Mission's  Catechism,"  "The  Bish- 
op's Blue  Book"  (1893),  "The  Crozier  and  the  Keys"  (1895),  "Homi- 
letical  Finger  Posts"  (1900),  "A  Missionary  Horologe"  (1902).  He 
died  February  20,  1910,  leaving  a  widow,  Anna  G.  Everly  Reed,  of  .St. 
Luke  and  the  Epiphany  Parish,  Philadelphia,  who  is  much  interested  in 
the  work  of  the  Church  and  Sunday-school. 

5  Rev.  William  W.  Parr,  D.D.,  son  of  John  Farr,  was  born  in  November, 
1840,  in  Philadelphia.  He  abandoned  a  business  career  in  1858  for  the 
ministry.  At  nineteen  he  attended  Kenyon  College,  Gambler,  Ohio,  grad- 
uating in  1864.  He  studied  theology  at  the  Philadelphia  Divinity  School; 
was  rector  of  Grace  Church,  Sandusky,  Ohio,  1866,  and  the  Church  of 
the  Saviour,  Philadelphia,  1877,  untU  his  death,  in  1883.  His  work  in 
Sandusky  was  essentially  one  of  charity,  and  was  by  no  means  confined 
to  his  own  parish..     He  built  Calvary  Church,  St.  John's  Chapel,  and 

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and  teachers,  in  this  school.  These  are  William  "Wilberforce 
Farr,^  6.  Albert  Redles,  Richard  Newton  Thomas  and  Wil- 
liam Wilberforce  Newton. 

"What  noble  specimens  of  Christian  character  have  been 
associated  together  here,  as  teachers,  in  the  carrying  on  of 
the  operations  of  these  schools?  We  think  of  John  P.  Bank- 
son,  the  heroic  martyr  to  the  cause  of  African  civilization, 
of  John  Farr,  of  Samuel  N.  Davies,  of  John  D.  George,  of 
Susannah  B.  Shober,  of  Cornelia  Cooper,  of  Ann  Jane  Carr, 
of  Christiana  Alexander,  of  Elizabeth  Gardner,  who  have 
labored  here  side  by  side,  in  the  carrying  on  of  this  work. 
They  were  among  the  excellent  of  the  earth.  Their  fragrant 
memories  are  cherished  still  by  all  who  knew  them.  '  They  rest 
from  their  labors  and  their  works  do  follow  them. '  ' ' 

Thomas  Latimer,  a  well-known  member  of  the  Philadelphia 
Bar  and  superintendent  of  the  male  school  for  forty  years, 
and  Miss  Almira  Pechin  were  also  prominent  teachers,  but, 
as  they  were  alive  at  the  time,  their  names  were  omitted. 
The  late  George  C.  Thomas,  who  was  brought  up  in  St.  Paul's, 
feeling  that  those  engaged  in  church  and  Sunday-school 
work  in  Philadelphia  ought  to  confer  about  the  best  method 
of  carrying  it  on,  organized,  in  1869,  with  the  aid  of  John 
Marston,  Jr.,  the  Sunday-school  Association  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  which  has  accomplished  such  excellent 
results. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  the  amount  of  money  annually  col- 
lected in  St.  Paul  Sunday-schools.  It  averaged  about  two 
thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  and  as  the  showing  of  the 
year  1866  is  typical  of  how  the  money  was  raised  and  applied 
it  is  appended. 

waa  the  projector  of  the  Good  Samaritan  Hospital.  He  married  Miss 
Lena  Haddock,  in  1866.  One  of  his  daughters,  Grace,  married  Hon.  Wil- 
liam Wilkins  Carr^  Judge  of  Court  of  Common  Pleas  No.  4,  of  Phila- 
delphia. 

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From  the  Female  School $930.75 

From  the  Male  School  464.93 

From  the  Female  Bible  Class 174.16 

From  the  Male  Bible  Class 267.50 

From  the  Infant  School 708.62 

The  Memorial  Offering 30.50 

Miscellaneous  Offerings  32.00 

Total    $2^608X6 

The  sum  was  appropriated  as  follows : 

The  Citizens'  Volunteer  Hospital $25.00 

Books  for  the  Episcopal  Hospital 50.00 

The  sufferers  by  the  great  fire  at  Ninth  and  Wash- 
ington Streets   136.64 

The  Foster  Home  26.00 

The  Ladies'  Aid 35.00 

The  American  Sunday-School  Union   50.00 

The  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  at  Corry,  Penn- 
sylvania     60.00 

The  Home  for  Soldiers  and  Sailors*  Orphans 100.00 

The  Dorcas  Society 87.00 

The  Union  School  and  Children's  Home 50.00 

St.  Andrew's  Church,  West  Philadelphia 20.00 

Poor  Clergymen   220.00 

The  Sunday-School  Association    100.00 

City  Pastor   30.00 

African  Mission    75.00 

The  Southern  Home  for  Friendless  Children 34.15 

The  Church  Home   25.00 

Expenses  of  St.  Paul's  Sunday-Schools 225.00 

Libraries  of  St.  Paul's  Sunday-Schools 100.00 

Parish  Library   50.00 

Divinity  Student  200.00 

The  Poor   100.00 

Anniversary  and  Fair  Express 183.15 

The    Church    Home    at    Twelfth    and    Fitzwater 

Streets 10.00 

The  Christian  Street  Hospital  10.00 

The  Freedmen  and  Poor  Whites 10.00 

Poor  Children   33.87 

Sunday-School  Music  15.00 

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Donation  through  Livingstone  class  122.65 

Per  William  Richardson   25.00 

Tract  Society,  Books  for  Soldiers  50.00 

St.  Paul's  Church  350.00 

$2,608.46 

It  must  not  be  forgotten  that  this  offering  of  $2,608.46  was 
merely  a  part  of  St.  Paul's  contribution.  The  church  itself 
gave  as  much  more  to  worthy  objects,  particularly  to  poor 
churches  and  missionaries  at  home  and  abroad.  No  other 
church  in  Philadelphia,  had,  at  this  period,  so  great  a  record 
in  this  respect. 

While  other  churches,  notably  St.  Peter's,  were  raising 
endowments  to  insure  themselves  a  happy  old  age,  St.  Paul's 
declined  to  do  so,  upon  the  ground  that,  her  money  was  needed 
to  carry  on  the  more  important  work  then  in  hand. 

An  endowment  was  indeed  talked  of  in  1866,  and  Dr.  New- 
ton proposed  to  the  vestry  a  plan  for  erecting  a  row  of  build- 
ings for  business  purposes  on  Third  Street,  and  erecting  a 
new  church  and  parish  building  in  the  rear,  which  would 
have  secured  an  annual  revenue  equal  to  an  endowment  for 
the  support  of  the  old  church.  The  vestry,  with  the  exception 
of  Jay  Cooke  and  William  Cummings,  being  unwilling  to 
disturb  the  family  vaults  by  the  side  of  the  present  building, 
and  for  other  reasons,  did  not  accept  the  plan.  The  value  of 
the  church  property  in  1883  was  placed  at  $85,000. 

Dr.  Newton  attracted  attention  for  the  radical  liberality  of 
religious  views  that  he  expressed  from  his  pulpit  and  in  his 
writings.  Union  College  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of 
doctor  of  divinity  in  1880.  He  was  select  preacher  to 
Leiand  Stanford  Jr.  University,  in  1903,  and  vice-president 
of  the  Congress  of  Religion,  1910-11.  He  married,  April  14, 
1864,  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Charles  S.  Lewis,  of  Phila- 
delphia.    His  publications  were:  "A  Good  Man  and  a  Just 

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RECTOR    OF    ST.    PAUL'S    1869-1872. 


J3iettot0Up  ot  2Dr.  Btmon 


One,  A  Sermon,  Memorial  of  Robert  Pennick  King,  Esq.," 
preached  at  St.  Paul's  Church,  Sunday  evening,  October  18, 
1868;  ''Children's  Church,"  a  Sunday-school  hymn  and 
service-book  (New  York,  1872);  "The  Morals  of  Trade" 
(1876)  ;  "Womanhood"  (1880)  ;  "Studies  of  Jesus"  (1880)  ; 
"Right  and  Wrong  Uses  of  the  Bible"  (1883)  ;  "The  Book 
of  the  Beginnings"  (1884)  ;  "Philistinism"  (1885)  ;  "Social 
Studies"  (1886);  "Church  and  Creed"  (1891);  "Christian 
Science"  (1898);  "Parsifal"  (1904),  besides  numerous 
magazine  papers,  addresses  and  reviews.  Some  of  his  works 
were  republished  in  England. 


17? 


RECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  ROCHE 

1869-1872 

0/^^g/^  HE  Reverend  Robert  Timpany  Roche,  D.D,,  rector 
y  ^  I  from  October  8,  1869,  to  October  1,  1872,  son  of 
■  I  I  William  Henry  Roche  by  his  wife  Sarah  Marian 
^^^^m  Timpany,  born  at  Digby,  Nova  Scotia,  February 
25,  1823;  died  at  Eatontown,  New  Jersey,  Janu- 
ary 18,  1901. 

Educated  at  King's  College,  Windsor,  Nova  Scotia,  and  the 
General  Theological  Seminary,  New  York,  he  was  admitted  to 
Holy  Orders  in  1844,  and  sent  as  a  missionary  under  the 
British  "Society  for  the  propagation  of  the  Gospel"  to 
Crapaud,  Prince  Edward  Island,  becoming  rector  of  Trinity 
Church,  Georgetown,  soon  afterward. 

He  came  to  the  United  States  about  1867,  accepting  an 
election  to  the  rectorship  of  Christ  Church,  Riverton,  New 
Jersey,  and  two  years  afterward  was  elected  rector  of  St. 
Paul 's,  Philadelphia,  remaining  there  until  ill  health  required 
a  change  of  climate.  In  his  long  and  faithful  ministry  of 
nearly  sixty  years  he  was  successively  rector  of  Trinity 
Church,  Georgetown,  Prince  Edward  Island;  Christ  Church, 
Riverton,  New  Jersey;  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia;  St. 
Mark's    Church,    Palatka,    Florida;    St.   Timothy's    Church, 

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REV.    SAMUEL    H.    BOYER,    D.D. 

RECTOR    OF    ST.    PAUL'S    1873-1879. 


Witctot^'^ip  of  2Dr.  TBo^n 


Philadelphia  J  Christ  Church,  Monticello,  Florida;  and  St. 
James'  Memorial,  Eatontown,  New  Jersey,  where,  in  spite  of 
failing  health,  he  spent  nine  years  of  devoted  service  to  his 
beloved  Master,  and  died  in  1901.  His  body  lies  in  the  beau- 
tiful old  churchyard  of  Christ  Church,  Shrewsbury,  New 
Jersey. 


EECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  BOYER 

1873-1879 

^^^■^HE  Reverend  Samuel  Herbert  Boyer,  D.D,,  rector 
/^  I  from  February  4,  1873,  to  1879,  son  of  Judge 
M  I  I  Samuel  Boyer  of  Elmira,  by  his  wife  Elenore 
^^^^Jr  Simmons,  born  at  Big  Flats,  Chemung  County, 
New  York,  October  20,  1836;  entered  into  rest 
January  15,  1916,  and  was  buried  in  West  Laurel  Hill,  Phila- 
delphia. 

He  entered  Kenyon  College,  Gambler,  Ohio,  where  he  was 
graduated  in  1866,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Mcllvaine  at 
Columbus,  Ohio,  in  the  following  year.  His  early  charges 
were  Christ  Church,  Xenia,  Ohio;  Christ  Church,  Glendale, 
Ohio,  and  St.  James'  Church,  Pittston,  Pennsylvania.  During 
his  five  years'  rectorate  at  St.  Paul's  he  was  fairly  success- 
ful and  most  highly  regarded.  The  congregation  had  at 
that  time  dwindled  in  numbers,  but  he  faithfully  admin- 
istered to  it,  and  during  his  rectorship  the  attendance  at  the 
church  was  fair  and  remained  about  stationary.  Subsequently, 
he  was  rector  of  St.  Peter's,  Delaware,  Ohio,  but  returned  to 
Philadelphia  to  complete  plans  for  the  building  of  the  Church 
of  the  Holy  Spirit,  Eleventh  Street  and  Snyder  Avenue, 
where  his  active  services  were  greatly  appreciated  by  the 
people  of  South  Philadelphia.     He  was  indefatigable  in  his 

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work  amongst  the  sick  and  the  afflicted.  His  zeal  for  mis- 
sionary work,  in  the  latter  part  of  his  life,  took  him  at  times 
to  the  open  pulpit  of  the  streets,  where,  with  a  wagon  and  an 
organ,  he  conducted  services  in  that  section  known  as  the 
"Neck,"  in  districts  inhabited  by  the  very  poor,  who,  he 
found,  had  not  been  attracted  by  the  regular  church  services. 
He  was  rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Spirit  for  nine- 
teen years,  and  retired  in  1908  as  rector  emeritus. 


RECTORSHIP  OF  REV.  MR.  ADAMSON 

1879-1886 

'HE  Rev.  William  Swan  Adamson,  rector  from  July 
/  ^  2,  1879,  to  August  31,  1886,  a  native  of  Dundee, 

fl     I  Scotland,   died  at  Nice,  France,   October,  1913, 

^^^^^  and  is  buried  in  the  Caneada  Cemetery  of  that 
city.  He  emigrated  to  the  United  States,  became 
a  naturalized  citizen  and  settled  in  Connecticut,  where,  at 
Torrington,  he  officiated  as  a  clergyman  of  the  Congregational 
Church,  and  also  at  Ansonia  in  that  State. 

Subsequently  the  faith  and  practice  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  drew  him  to  her,  and  he  was,  after  prepara- 
tion, made  a  deacon  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Abram  Newkirk  Little- 
john,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Long  Island,  January  25,  1875,  and 
raised  to  the  priesthood  by  the  same  Bishop,  December  20, 
1875. 

He  was  in  charge  of  St.  Thomas's  Church,  Ravenswood, 
Long  Island,  in  1875,  and  rector  of  that  parish  from  1876  to 
1879,  when  he  became  rector  of  St.  Paul's  on  the  second  of 
July  of  that  year.  Here  he  did  excellent  work  and  was  much 
esteemed,  but  resigned  to  accept  the  rectorship  of  the  Amer- 
ican Church  in  Geneva,  Switzerland,  where  he  remained  for 

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REV.    WILLIAM     ADAMSON. 

RECTOR    1880-1886. 


Witctot^^ip  ot  SDr*  ContaH 


seven  years,  going  from  there  to  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Trinity,  at  Nice,  France,  which  position  he  held  for  nineteen 
years  until  his  decease,  in  the  rectory  of  that  Church,  in  1913. 


RECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  CONRAD 
1886-1893 

^^^M^HE  Eeverend  Thomas  Kittera  Conrad,  D.D.,  rector 
V^  I  from  October,  1886,  to  May  28,  1893,  son  of 
■  I  I  Harry  I.  Conrad  by  his  wife  Hannah  S.  Kay, 
^^^^f  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  January  19,  1836,  and 
died  at  Wayne,  Pennsylvania,  28  May,  1893. 
Obtaining  his  earlier  education  at  Dr.  Samuel  Crawford's 
school,  Fourth  Street  below  Arch  Street,  he  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  and  was  graduated  bachelor  of  arts 
in  1855,  and  pursued  his  theological  studies  under  Bishop 
Alonzo  Potter,  by  whom  he  was  ordained  January  19,  1860, 
in  St.  Mark's  Church,  Philadelphia.  He  received  his  master's 
degree  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  1858,  and  that  of 
doctor  of  divinity  from  Pennsylvania  College,  Gettysburg,  in 
1868.  His  first  charge  was  All  Saint's  Church,  Philadelphia, 
and  he  was  the  first  rector  of  Calvary  Church,  Germantown, 
which  he  was  instrumental  in  building.  He  was  also  rector 
of  St.  John's  Church,  Clifton,  Staten  Island,  New  York; 
assistant  minister  of  the  Church  of  the  Heavenly  Rest,  New 
York,  under  the  Rev,  Dr.  Rowland;  rector  of  the  Church  of 
the  Transfiguration,  Philadelphia,  which  he  erected  on  his 
return  from  Europe,  whither  he  had  gone  to  be  treated  for 
an  affection  of  the  throat.  Resigning  in  1884  he  again  went 
abroad.  On  his  return  to  Philadelphia  in  1886,  he  was  elected 
rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  in  October  of  that  year,  which 
13  177 


position  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  connection  with 
St.  Mary's  Memorial  Church,  Wayne,  of  which  he  had  been 
invited  to  take  charge  in  October,  1888. 

Prior  to  this  there  had  been  no  church  building  at  "Wayne, 
the  members  of  the  congregation  worshipping  in  a  hall,  as 
an  organization  had  been  effected  a  few  years  before.  Shortly 
after  his  second  return  from  Europe,  Dr.  Conrad  signified  his 
desire  of  building  a  church  in  memory  of  his  parents.  The 
church  was  built  during  1889  and  1890;  the  corner-stone 
being  laid  June  27,  1889,  and  church  consecrated  April  17, 
1890.  While  engaged  in  one  of  his  most  pleasant  self-imposed 
tasks,  that  of  ringing  the  church  chimes.  Dr.  Conrad  became 
overheated  and  thus  contracted  a  cold,  which  resulted  in  his 
confinement  to  the  house,  during  which  a  special  even-song 
service  was  held  in  the  church.  To  hear  the  music  of  this 
service,  he  sat  by  an  open  window,  took  additional  cold  which 
developed  into  pneumonia  and  ended  fatally. 

He  married,  May  10,  1882,  Anne,  daughter  of  John  Fries 
Eraser,  LL.D.,  vice-provost  and  professor  of  natural  philos- 
ophy and  chemistry  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  Mrs. 
Conrad  was  a  communicant  of  St.  Luke's  and  The  Epiphany 
and  much  interested  in  parish  work  until  her  death,  which 
occurred  recently.  Dr.  Conrad  was  a  trustee  of  the  Drexel 
Institute,  Philadelphia.  Possessed  of  ample  means  his  acts  of 
charity  were  as  countless  as  they  were  unostentatious.  His 
publications  were:  "Prayer";  essays,  occasional  sermons  and 
contributions  to  current  literature. 


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REV.    THOMAS    KITTERA    CONRAD,    D.D. 
RECTOR    OF    ST.    PAUL'S    1886-1893. 


llXtctttt^'^ip  ot  SDt.  f^tebtn^ 


EECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  STEVENS 
1893-1894 

'HE  Reverend  Charles  Ellis  Stevens,  LL.D,,  D.C.L., 
£  ^  rector  from  November  13,  1893,  to  December  16, 

A     I  1894,  son  of  James  Edward  Poole  Stevens  by  his 

^^^^Jr  wife  Mary  Pitkin  Abrahams,  was  born  at  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  July  5,  1853,  and  died  at  Brook- 
lyn, August  28,  1906. 

Entering  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1871,  he  studied 
at  Yale  College  in  1872-73,  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Berkeley  Divinity  School,  Middletown,  Connecticut,  in  1875. 
His  first  appointment  was  as  assistant  at  Grace  Church, 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  1876-77;  after  which  he  was  rector  of 
the  Church  of  the  Ascension,  Brooklyn,  1877-1880;  arch- 
deacon of  Brooklyn,  1887-1891,  and  rector  of  Christ  Church, 
Philadelphia,  1891  to  1905,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  the 
Rev.  Louis  C.  Washburn,  S.T.D.,  the  present  rector. 

As  many  of  the  old  families  affiliated  with  and  communi- 
cants of  St.  Paul's,  had  ceased  to  be  regular  attendants  by 
reason  of  their  removal  to  distant  parts  of  the  city  and  sub- 
urbs, and  as  business  houses  had  largely  supplanted  the  one- 
time dwelling  houses,  those  who  came  to  worship  within  its 
walls  endeared  by  hallowed  association,  did  so  at  a  disad-. 
vantage  to  themselves  and  to  the  continuance  of  parochial  life. 
Hence,  while  Dr.  Stevens  did  excellent  work  here  in  connec- 
tion with  his  Christ  Church  parish,  the  field  was  not  one  of 
encouragement.    He  however  held  regular  services  during  1894. 

He  was  special  lecturer  on,  and  later  professor  of,  constitu- 
tional law  and  civil  polity  at  the  University  of  the  City  of 
New  York  and  other  colleges.  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Geograph- 
ical Society,  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Antiquarians  of 

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Edinburgh,  and,  of  other  learned  as  well  as  hereditary-patriotic 
societies,  in  which  latter  he  took  a  deep  interest.  The  Uni- 
versity of  Wooster,  Ohio,  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of 
LL.D,  in  1888,  and  King 's  College,  Canada,  in  the  same  year, 
the  D.C.L.  degree,  and  Yale,  that  of  Ph.D. 

He  married  Ella  Monteith,  daughter  of  Walter  Monteith 
Aikman,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  had  issue. 

His  publications  embraced  many  reviews,  pamphlets  and 
sermons,  as  well  as  several  books,  the  most  important  being: 
"The  Sources  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States" 
(1894),  published  in  England,  and  translated  into  French 
(1897)  ;  "The  Romance  of  Arensfels,  and  Other  tales  of  the 
Rhine"  (1897).  For  some  years  he  was  an  associate  editor  of 
The  Living  Church. 


RECTORSHIP  OF  DR.  McGARVEY 

1897-1898 

^^^j^HE  Reverend  William  I.  McGarvey,  D.D.,  rector 
/  ^\       June  1,  1897,  to  October  1,  1898,  son  of  Alex- 
■     I  I       ander  McGarvey  by  his  wife  Mary  Jane   Col- 
^^^^r      well,    was    born    at    Philadelphia,    August    14, 
1861. 
Educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia  and  by  pri- 
vate tutors,  he  entered  the  General  Theological  Seminary  in 
New  York,   was   graduated  with  the   bachelor's   degree   in 
1887,    and    ordained    priest,    August    22,    1886,    becoming 
curate  of  the  Church  of  the  Evangelists,  Philadelphia,  1886 
to  1896,  and  rector  of  St.  Paul's  the  following  year.    He  later 
was  rector  of  St.  Elizabeth's  Church,  Philadelphia,  Master 
of   the    Companions   of  the   Holy   Saviour,    and    Chaplain- 
General  of  the  Sisterhood  of  St.  Mary  in  the  United  States. 

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REV.    CHARLES    ELLIS   STEVENS. 
RECTOR    OF   ST.    PAUL'S    1893-1894. 


Wiettot0^ip  ot  m*  9?c(Bati)eg 


Nashotah  Seminary,  Wisconsin,  conferred  upon  him  the  D.D. 
degree  in  1904.  He  was  a  high  churchman,  and  having 
the  courage  of  his  beliefs  and  convictions  he  subsequently 
seceded  from  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  and  entered 
the  priesthood  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  May  27,  1908. 
He  is  now  doing  most  efficient  work,  in  his  new  field  of  activ- 
ity, charged  as  he  is,  especially  to  visit  the  sick  and  suffering, 
at  the  Philadelphia  Hospital,  University  Hospital  and  Presby- 
terian Hospital.  As  an  Assistant  to  Reverend  I.  C.  Monahan, 
Rector  of  St.  James  Roman  Catholic  Church,  Southeast  corner 
of  Thirty-eighth  and  Chestnut  Streets,  West  Philadelphia,  and 
he  is  highly  regarded  by  the  clergy,  and  loved  and  respected 
by  his  parishioners.  Among  his  publications  were :  * '  The  Cere- 
monies of  a  Low  Celebration"  (1891)  ;  ''Catechetical  Instruc- 
tion" (1893)  ;  ''The  Council  of  Nicaea"  (1894)  ;  "Liturgiae 
Americanea"  (1895),  a  valuable  work  on  the  liturgy  of  the 
American  Episcopal  Church. 


On  the  fourteenth  of  March,  1901,  the  rector,  church  war- 
dens, and  vestrymen  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  by  Thomas  Mc- 
Cully,  accounting  warden,  and  Frederick  Metettal,  secretary, 
presented  a  petition  to  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  No,  5  of 
Philadelphia  County,  praying  that  the  corporation  be  dis- 
solved and  setting  forth  that,  upon  the  completion  of  the 
church  building,  the  Church  of  St.  Paul  entered  upon  a  long 
period  of  usefulness,  was  attended  by  large  congregations  and 
supported  by  a  membership  of  persons  of  substantial  means 
and  so  continued  for  more  than  a  century,  successfully  accom- 
plishing the  purposes  for  which  it  was  organized.  When, 
however,  the  neighborhood  ceased  to  be  desirable  as  a  place  of 
residence  and  the  members  moved  to  other  parts  of  the  city, 
the  attendance  greatly  decreased,   and  through  subsequent 

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years  continued  to  decrease,  until  those  who  were  able  to  rent 
sittings  and  otherwise  contribute  to  the  support  of  the  parish 
became  so  reduced  in  number,  that  the  resources  of  the  church 
ceased  to  be  sufficient  for  the  employment  of  a  rector  and  the 
maintenance  of  regular  services. 

Contending  with  the  difficulties  arising  from  these  condi- 
tions the  vestry  have  for  many  years  made  every  effort  to 
continue  public  worship  in  the  church,  sustain  the  other  duties 
of  the  parish  and  maintain  the  property,  seeking  financial  aid 
from  others  not  members  of  this  church,  and  the  ministrations 
of  the  clergy  of  other  parishes;  but  it  has  long  since  become 
apparent  that  the  parish  cannot  be  sustained  by  the  occasional 
aids  of  those  upon  whom  it  has  no  claim,  and  having  no  en- 
dowment or  other  reserve  fund,  the  petitioner  is  compelled  to 
the  decision  to  terminate  the  corporate  existence  of  the  church 
^and  dispose  of  its  property. 

That  the  only  disposition  of  the  property  practicable,  and 
"at  the  same  time  accordant  with  the  intentions  of  those  by 
whom  it  was  acquired  and  devoted  to  religious  uses,  is  to 
transfer  it  to  another  church  of  the  same  faith  and  denominar 
tion  willing  to  accept  it  and  to  endeavor  to  continue  tne 
services. 

Therefore,  the  petitioner  has  requested  St.  Peter's  Church, 
incorporated,  as  "The  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestry- 
men of  St.  Peter's  Church  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,"  to 
take  over  the  property  for  the  religious  and  charitable  uses 
of  that  church  corporation,  and  it  has  agreed  so  to  do. 

St.  Peter's  Church  is  situated  near  St,  Paul's,  at  the  south- 
west corner  of  Third  and  Pine  Streets,  is  of  the  communion 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  in  its  usages  and 
practices  conforms  in  all  essential  particulars  to  those  of  St. 
Paul 's,  and  to  the  requirements  set  forth  in  the  Agreement  of 
the  Contributors  and  in  the  Charter. 

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REV.    WILLIAM    L    McGARVEY,    D.D. 

RECTOR    OF    ST.    PAUL'S    1897-1898. 


petition  to  2Di00oIbe  Cotpotation 


In  accepting  the  offer  of  this  church,  it  was  stipulated  on 
the  part  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  and  agreed  to  by  the  peti- 
tioner, that  the  property  shall  be  conveyed  free  of  all  con- 
ditions, restrictions  and  trusts  so  far  as  the  petitioner  is 
enabled  so  to  convey  or  shall  be  empowered  by  the  court; 
satisfied  that  the  application  of  the  property  to  the  religious 
and  charitable  purposes  of  the  corporation  of  St,  Peter's 
Church  sufficiently  protects  the  intentions  of  the  founders 
and  the  petitioner. 

That,  as  the  continuance  of  the  corporate  existence  of  this 
church  cannot  serve  any  useful  purpose  after  the  conveyance 
of  its  property,  it  desires  to  surrender  its  charter  and  be 
dissolved. 

That  all  the  matters  above  mentioned  having  been  duly 
considered  at  a  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Church  of  St. 
Paul,  at  which  a  majority  were  present,  held  on  the  twenty- 
eighth  of  February,  and  seventh  day  of  March,  A.  D.  1901, 
after  notice  publicly  given  at  morning  service  on  the  twenty- 
fourth  day  of  February,  A.  D.  1901,  the  following  resolu- 
tions were  then  agreed  upon  and  passed  unanimously : 

Whereas,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Church  Wardens  and  Vesti*ymen  of 
the  Church  of  St.  Paul  (the  office  of  Rector  being  then  and  at  the 
present  time  vacant),  held  on  the  seventeenth  day  of  December,  1900, 
and  subsequently  at  a  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  church,  held 
on  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  December,  1900,  after  notice  duly  given, 
it  was  decided  that  the  interests  of  this  Church  will  be  best  advanced 
by  transferring  all  its  property  to  St.  Peter's  Church,  and  that  the 
necessary  steps  be  taken  to  that  end. 

And  Whereas  :  at  a  conference  of  the  vestries  of  the  two  churches 
all  matters  necessary  to  be  understood  and  agreed  upon  have  been 
considered  and  settled,  to  the  effect  that  this  church  corporation 
shall  sell,  transfer  and  convey  all  its  property  real  and  personal  to 
the  corporation  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  in  consideration  of  one  dollar, 
and  for  the  religious  and  charitable  purposes  of  the  corporation  of 
St.  Peter's  Church;  and  that  at  the  same  time  the  corporate  existence 

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of  the  Church  of  St.  Paul  shall  cease  and  by  proper  process  be  dis- 
solved. 

And  Whereas  in  the  judgment  of  this  meeting  the  present  con- 
ditions and  future  prospects  of  the  Church  are  such  that  it  will  not 
be  possible  to  continue  and  maintain  regular  public  worship  and 
services;  and  it  is  our  belief  that  the  uses  and  purposes  for  which 
the  church  property  was  acquired  and  held,  will  be  more  nearly  ful- 
filled by  transferring  it  to  St.  Peter's  Church  than  by  any  other  use 
of  the  same  that  can  now  be  made; 

And  Whereas  it  is  the  desire  of  St.  Peter's  Church  that  in  the 
transfer  of  the  property  no  condition,  restriction,  or  trust  shall  be 
reserved  or  imposed,  and  so  far  as  we  are  enabled  or  may  be  em- 
powered by  the  Court  we  approve  and  agree  to  that  stipulation; 

Now  Therefore  Resolved: 

I.  That  the  action  of  the  Vestry  as  above  mentioned  is  approved 
and  confirmed  and  this  meeting  requests  and  authorizes  the  "  Rector, 
Church  Wardens,  and  Vestrymen  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  St. 
Paul  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Penn- 
sylvania" to  transfer  and  convey  all  property  real  and  personal  of 
the  Church  of  St.  Paul  to  the  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestry- 
men of  St.  Peter's  Church  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  its  successors 
and  assigns;  and  that  application  be  made  by  the  Vestry  to  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  leave  to  make  and  perfect  such  sale 
and  conveyance, 

II.  Resolved,  That  the  Charter  of  the  Corporation  of  the  Church 
of  St.  Paul  be  surrendered  and  that  proceedings  for  dissolution  be 
taken  in  the  proper  Court. 

III.  Resolved,  That  a  certain  charge  of  Seventy-five  dollars  per 
annum  upon  the  land  late  of  Lydia  Delany,  deceased  in  Delaware 
County,  Pennsylvania,  created  by  her  will  for  "a  scholarship  in 
St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia"  further  secured  by  a  bond  and 
mortgage  redeemable  upon  the  payment  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars, 
made  by  Mary  McClure  shall  pass  and  endure  to  the  benefit  of  St. 
Peter's  Church  for  the  purposes  set  forth  in  said  will,  bond  and 
mortgage;  and  that  a  petition  be  presented  to  the  proper  Court  for 
leave  to  assign  such  yearly  charge  and  mortgage,  and  for  the  sub- 
stitution of  St.  Peter's  Church  as  Trustee,  in  place  of  this  Church. 

And  Thereupon^  at  a  meeting  of  the  Vestry  held  immediately 
after  the  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  church,  the  following  was 
unanimously  passed: 

Whereas^  the  members  of  this  church  have  at  a  meeting  duly  con- 

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petition  to  M00ol\it  Corpotatton 


vened,  passed  a  resolution  confirming  the  action  heretofore  taken 
by  this  Vestry: 

I.  Resolved:  That  the  "Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrjanen 
of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia  in 
the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania"  acting  by  its  Wardens  and 
Vestrymen,  when  empowered  by  the  order  of  the  proper  Court,  do 
transfer  and  convey  all  its  property  real  and  personal  of  every 
kind  and  description  to  "  The  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestry- 
men of  St.  Peter's  Church  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia"  its  Succes- 
sors and  Assigns. 

II.  Resolved:  That  this  corporation  shall  surrender  its  Charter 
and  be  dissolved. 

III.  Resolved:  That  a  petition  be  prepared  and  presented  to  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  the  City  and  County  of  Philadelphia  for 
leave  and  authority  to  make  conveyance  as  aforesaid  and  for  leave 
to  dissolve. 

IV.  That  the  accounting  Warden  be  authorized  to  attach  the  seal 
of  the  corporation,  to  be  attested  by  him  and  the  Secretary  of  this 
meeting,  to  the  said  Petition  and  to  all  deeds,  conveyances,  and  as- 
surances necessary  or  proper  to  be  made  and  executed  for  the  trans- 
fer and  delivery  of  the  property  of  this  Church  to  the  Rector, 
Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  St.  Peter's  Church  in  the  City 
of  Philadelphia  its  successors  and  assigns. 

V.  Resolved,  That  a  petition  be  prepared  with  the  seal  of  this  cor- 
poration attached  and  attested  as  aforesaid,  and  presented  to  the 
Orphans'  Court  of  Delaware  County  for  the  discharge  of  this  Church 
as  Trustee  under  the  will  of  Lydia  Delany,  late  of  Delaware  County, 
Pennsylvania,  of  a  charge  of  seventy-five  dollars  per  annum  for  a 
scholarship  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia  and  for  the  substi- 
tution in  its  place  of  the  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen 
of  St.  Peter's  Church  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  and  for  leave  to 
assign  the  mortgage  made  by  Mary  McClure  as  a  further  security 
for  said  charge. 

President  Judge  J.  Willis  Martin,  after  the  usual  notice  by  adver- 
tisement and  there  being  no  objection  entered  the  following  decree: 

In  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  No.  5,  for  the  County  of  Philadel- 
phia, March  Term,  1901,  No.  160. 

In  the  matter  of  the  Petition  of  the  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and 
Vestrymen  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul  in  the  City  of 
Philadelphia  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania. 

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I^fgftor?  ot  &t  pauI'iS  (Cpijtfcppal  C5utc$ 

Decree 

And  Now  April  1st,  1901,  on  motion  of  W.  M.  Lansdale,  Esq., 
upon  hearing  the  Petition  of  the  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and 
Vestrymen  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul  in  the  City  of 
Philadelphia,  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania  for  leave  to  sell 
and  convey  all  the  property  of  said  Church  corporation  to  the  Rec- 
tor, Church  "Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  St.  Peter's  Church  in  the 
City  of  Philadelphia;  and  for  leave  to  surrender  its  Charter  and  be 
dissolved  the  prayers  of  the  said  Petition  are  granted  and: — 

It  is  Ordered  and  Decreed  I.  That  the  Rector,  Church  War- 
dens and  Vestrymen  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul  in  the  City 
of  Philadelphia  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania  be  authorized 
and  empowered  to  sell  for  the  consideration  of  one  dollar,  and  grant, 
assign  and  convey  by  proper  deed  or  deeds  of  conveyance  to  the 
Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  St.  Peter's  Church  in  the 
City  of  Philadelphia,  its  successors  and  assigns,  all  its  lots  or  pieces 
of  ground  with  the  buildings  thereon  erected  situate  on  the  East  side 
of  Third  Street  between  Walnut  and  Spruce  Street  in  the  City  of 
Philadelphia  as  in  the  said  Petition  more  particularly  described; 

And  Also  the  burial  lots  in  Mount  Moriah  Cemetery  conveyed  to 
the  Petitioner  by  deed  dated  June  23rd,  A.  D.  1855,  being  Section 
numbered  forty-seven  as  described  in  said  petition. 

II.  And  it  Appearing  that  due  notice  of  the  application  of  the 
Petitioner  for  leave  to  dissolve  has  been  given  by  publication  in  two 
daily  newspapers  of  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  and  the  legal  Intelli- 
gencer once  a  week  for  three  weeks  and  it  further  appearing  the 
prayer  of  said  petitioner  may  be  granted  without  prejudice  to  the 
public  welfare  or  interests  of  the  corporators  and  members  of  said 
church:  IT  IS  FURTHER  ORDERED  AND  DECREED  that  the 
said  corporation  the  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia,  in  the 
Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  dissolved 
and  all  and  singular  its  powers,  franchises  and  privileges  be  and 
the  same  are  hereby  extinguished  and  determined ;  provided  that  this 
Decree  shall  not  go  into  effect  until  a  certified  copy  thereof  be  filed 
and  recorded  in  the  Office  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Commonwealth. 

J.  Willis  Martin^ 
President  Judge. 


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iDtcttt  Si>i00oMnfi  Corporation 


This  decree  dissolved  St.  Paul's  Cliiirch  corporation 
and  authorized  the  transfer  of  its  real  estate  to  the  cor- 
poration of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Third  and  Pine  Streets, 
of  the  same  faith  and  denomination,  which  latter  cor- 
poration was  willing  to  accept  the  same  and  to  con- 
tinue the  church  services.  Accordingly  this  was  done, 
as  the  Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul  conveyed  to  the  Rector, 
Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  St.  Peter's  Church, 
by  deed  dated  April  10,  1901,  recorded  at  Philadelphia 
in  Deed  Book  J.  V.  No.  204,  page  519,  the  church 
and  burial  ground,  viz.  (No.  1)  situate  on  the  east 
side  of  Third  Street  between  Walnut  and  Spruce 
Streets  (being  the  northernmost  part  of  two  lots  pur- 
chased by  Samuel  Powell  of  Thomas  Parsons  and  as- 
signed to  Anthony  Morris),  containing  in  front  on 
Third  Street  73  feet  and  in  depth  eastward  105  feet. 
(2)  Situate  east  side  of  Third  Street  between  Walnut 
and  Spruce  Streets  (being  the  southernmost  part  of 
two  lots  aforesaid  purchased  by  Samuel  Powell  of 
Thomas  Parsons  and  assigned  to  Israel  Morris). 
Front  30  feet,  depth  195  feet.  The  Rector,  Church 
Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  St.  Peter's  Church  subse- 
quently on  April  16,  1904,  reconveyed  said  church  and 
burial  ground  to  the  trustees  of  the  Protestant  Episco- 
pal Church  in  the  Diocese  of  Pennsylvania,  by  deed 
recorded  at  Philadelphia  in  Deed  Book  W.  S.  V.  No. 
284,  page  350. 

This  last  deed  recites  that  the  Rector,  Church  War- 
dens and  Vestry  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  desiring  to  con- 
tinue the  use  for  religious  purposes  of  the  church  build- 

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ing  owned  by  them,  known  as  St.  Paul's  Churcli  on 
Third  Street,  have  offered  to  convey  it  to  the  trustees 
of  the  Diocese,  to  hold  for  the  Philadelphia  Protestant 
Episcopal  City  Mission  so  long  as  that  body  should  con- 
tinue to  use  it  for  the  purposes  of  their  organization  and 
keep  and  maintain  the  property  and  ground  in  suitable 
order  and  condition,  and,  in  the  event  of  the  City  Mis- 
sion no  longer  making  use  of  it,  to  hold  for  such  other 
purposes  and  objects  without  restrictions  as  the  Bishop 
and  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  of  Pennsylvania 
may  direct.  The  legal  title  to  the  lot  of  St.  Paul's 
Church  appears,  therefore,  to  be  vested  today  in  the 
trustees  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the 
Diocese  of  Pennsylvania.  The  assessed  value  of  the 
land  and  building  on  the  tax  books  of  the  city  of  Phila- 
delphia is  $50,000,  although,  as  a  church,  it  is,  under  the 
law,  exempt  from  taxation. 

While  there  is  no  reference  to  the  subject  in  the  de- 
cree of  President  Judge  Martin  above  quoted,  it  is  clear 
that  St.  Peter's  Church  corporation  only  acquired  the 
legal  title,  subject  to  the  condition  that  it  would  con- 
tinue services  and  protect  the  intention  of  the  founders ; 
and  subject  also  to  the  further  trust  and  restriction 
that  it  is  a  church  and  graveyard  and  can  be  devoted  to 
no  other  purpose.  The  trustees  are  without  power  in 
law  to  divert  it  from  the  uses  for  which  it  is  impressed 
without  the  consent  of  a  court  having  jurisdiction  over 
trusts.  And  this  is  also  the  law  upon  the  dissolution  of 
a  charitable  corporation.  Its  property,  upon  sale,  will 
be  appropriated  by  the  Court  to  the  purpose  most 

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SDtttte  M&^oMns  Corporation 


nearly  akin  to  the  intent  of  the  donors  and  will  not  be 
distributed  to  the  donors  (In  Re  Centennial  and 
Memorial  Association  of  Valley  Forge,  235  Pa.  St. 
Rep.,  p.  206.  Young's  Estate,  224  Pa.  St.,  p.  570; 
Young's  Estate,  20  Penna.  Dist.  Rep.,  p.  686  (1911). 
Gummey,  J.)  As  was  stated  by  the  court  of  Lehigh 
County  by  Albright,  President  Judge  in  Zion  German 
Reformed  Congregation's  appeal,  1  Monaghan,  page 
635,  ''whether  a  profit  can  be  made  by  removing  the 
bodies  and  selling  the  ground  cannot  enter  into  the  in- 
quiry. There  is  no  law,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
there  never  will  be,  permitting  the  dead  to  be  exhumed 
and  carried  from  one  burying-ground  to  another  when- 
ever a  cheaper  place  to  deposit  the  remains  can  be 
found."  See  Methodist  Cemetery  case,  39  Pa.  Co.  Ct. 
Rep.,  page  17.  If  the  trustees  of  the  Diocese  conclude 
to  sell  St.  Paul's,  before  its  sale,  the  permission  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  this  County  is  required  to  be 
first  obtained,  after  hearing  all  parties  in  interest,  under 
the  Act  of  May  23,  1887.  This  Act  also  requires  that 
each  body  to  be  removed  shall  be  separately  reinterred 
in  some  suitable  burial  ground  and  each  grave  be 
marked  by  headstones,  et  cetera,  and  there  is  the  fur- 
ther provision  that  no  such  petition  shall  be  granted  by 
the  court,  except  upon  condition  set  forth  in  the  decree 
requiring  the  petitioners  to  purchase  the  rights  of  all 
lot-holders  in  such  burial  grounds,  and  to  secure  the 
consent  in  writing  of  the  near  relatives  of  the  deceased, 
whenever  such  relatives  shall  appear  as  parties  to  such 
proceedings.  The  trustees  of  the  Diocese  hold  the 
title  subject  to  like  trusts  and  limitations,  to  which  has 

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^motv  ot  &t  paurjei  (episcopal  Cl^utcl 

been  added  the  further  trust  by  St.  Peter's  that  it  shall 
be  held  for  the  benefit  of  the  City  Mission.  As  long  as 
the  City  Mission  continues  to  occupy  the  old  Sunday 
School  for  its  business  offices  and  continues  the  church 
services  no  one  has  any  objection.  But  an  interesting 
legal  question  would  arise  if  it  were  attempted  to  sell 
Old  St.  Paul's  Church  and  burial  ground  after  exhum- 
ing the  dead,  recoffining  them,  buying  a  new  ground, 
and  marking  each  grave  with  headstones  and  purchas- 
ing the  rights  of  all  lot-holders,  and  give  the  proceeds, 
if  there  were  any,  to  the  City  Mission.  The  right  of 
St.  Peter's  corporation  to  add  a  trust  in  favor  of  the 
City  Mission  upon  the  other  subsisting  trusts  then  ex- 
isting is  not  clear  in  law  and  is  probably  ultra  vires. 
Under  section  7  of  the  Act  of  April  26,  1855,  P.  L. 
328,  it  has  been  held  by  the  Supreme  Court:  ''This 
legislation  in  most  unequivocal  terms  confirms  to  every 
religious  society,  incorporated  or  unincorporated,  the 
absolute  ownership  of  its  property  subject  only  to  the 
condition  that  it  shall  not  divert  it  from  the  uses  and 
purposes  and  trusts  to  which  it  may  have  been  lawfully 
dedicated.  It  expresses  the  settled  policy  of  the  State 
with  respect  to  the  tenure  of  property  held  by  religious 
societies  that  has  been  steadily  observed  without  ques- 
tion for  now  more  than  half  a  century."  Krauczunas 
V.  Hogan,  221  Pa.  St.  Eep.,  213.  The  terms  of  the  Act 
of  Assembly  are  imperative.  St.  Paul's  Church,  Chest- 
nut Hill,  30  Pa.  St.  Reps.,  152;  Louther  M.  E.  Church, 
40  Pa.  Co.  Ci,  p.  615. 

Under  this  statute  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  St.  Peter's 
corporation,  as  trustee  of  St.  Paul's  real  estate  con- 

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veyed  to  it  for  the  nominal  consideration  of  one  dollar, 
even  if  the  deed  erroneously  states  it  to  be  in  fee  simple, 
could  make  a  valid  trust  in  favor  of  the  City  Mission, 
which  would  entitle  the  City  Mission  to  the  proceeds  of 
the  sale  of  the  real  estate,  because  that  would  be  di- 
verting it  from  the  uses,  purposes  and  trusts  to  which  it 
had  been  lawfully  delegated.  And  this  no  court  would 
permit.  See  Krauczunas  v.  Hogan,  221  Pa.  St.  Eeps., 
213  (1908),  Stewart,  J.;  Phillips  v.  Westminster 
Church,  225  Pa.  St.  Reps.,  62  (1909),  Sulzberger,  P. 
J.;  Mazaika  v.  Krauczunas,  233  Pa.  St.  Reps.,  138 
(1911),  Stewart,  J. 

This  question,  however,  is  not  important  at  this  time. 
It  is  proper  to  say  that  the  City  Mission  has  faithfully 
held  noonday  services  in  Old  St.  Paul's  Church  since 
that  time  and  still  continues  them  and  ought  to  continue 
them.  Many  churchmen,  having  regard  to  the  history 
of  Old  St.  Paul's,  and  doubtless  aware  of  the  legal 
status  of  the  land,  are  of  opinion  that  the  services  at  the 
church  should  be  continued  and  not  abandoned,  and  that 
those  buried  there  have  rights  which  should  be  respected. 
"We  must  not  forget  that,  primarily,  we  are  dealing 
merely  with  property  rights  which  are  regulated  by  law. 

Some  few  churchmen,  ignorant  both  of  the  facts  and 
the  law  of  trusts  as  applicable  to  the  title  to  the  real 
estate,  not  having  had  the  matter  brought  to  their  at- 
tention, affect  to  believe  that  Old  St.  Paul's  is  merely 
an  asset  to  which  the  trustees  of  the  Diocese  have  a 
title  in  fee  simple,  from  which  money  can  be  obtained 
for  the  prosecution  and  extension  of  other  church  work 

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^i^tot^  ot  S>t  ^mV0  (Episcopal  Cj^urcS 

to  be  determined  by  them,  without  leave  of  the  court. 
As  to  this,  they  may  find  themselves  mistaken.  In 
their  commercial  view  it  is  no  longer  a  consecrated 
place,  but  a  piece  of  ground  having  a  money  value,  in- 
cumbered by  a  useless  building  and  some  old  bones,  to- 
gether with  slabs  of  marble,  that  ought  to  be  sold  and 
devoted  to  business  purposes,  that  the  work  of  the 
church  may  be  extended  through  the  City  Mission  in 
some  other  location,  without  the  allegation  or  sugges- 
tion that  St.  Paul's  is  a  nuisance,  dilapidated  or  out 
of  repair,  which  cannot  truthfully  be  said,  because  it  is 
in  good  order  and  condition. 

This  desire  to  make  money  out  of  the  dead,  by  the 
sale  of  ground  dedicated  to  its  use,  is  not  a  new  prop- 
osition. Unhappily,  there  are  some  people  to  whom 
it  seems  right  to  traffic  over  a  grave  and  the  sacred 
ashes  of  the  dead,  if  money  can  be  obtained.  In  March, 
1889,  two  auctioneers  sold  in  the  City  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  a  tract  of  land,  including  the  grave  of  Mary,  the 
mother  of  General  George  Washington,  at  Fredericks- 
burg, Virginia,  but  the  Supreme  Court  of  that  State  re- 
fused to  permit  it  (Colbert  vs.  Kirtly  and  Shepherd, 
89  Virginia  Reports,  p.  401, 1892). 

Another  recent  attempt  to  disturb  the  repose  of  the 
dead  was  in  the  Legislature  of  Pennsylvania  by  House 
Bill  No.  591,  Session  of  1917,  authorizing  the  Court  of 
Quarter  Sessions  to  make  orders  and  decrees  for  the 
removal  of  bodies  interred  in  burial  grounds  or  ceme- 
teries in  or  adjacent  to  cities,  which  passed  both  houses 
but  Governor  Martin  G.  Brumbaugh  on  July  6,  1917, 
very  properly  vetoed  it,  stating: 

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S)e&itt  to  9^eitt  9^ont^  out  ot  t^t  ISDeati 

"  The  Bill  does  not  indicate  whose  oversight  shall  be  invoked  to 
care  for  those  sacred  quantities  of  Christian  dust  when  once  they  are 
removed.  The  Bill  does  not  indicate  from  what  source  shall  come  the 
funds  for  the  removal  of  these  bodies,  nor  does  it  provide  any  means 
of  payment  for  ground  to  which  they  are  transferred. 

"  Especially  is  the  Bill  lacking  in  any  provision  to  hint  even  as  to 
the  ownership  of  the  abandoned  burial  ground  after  the  bodies  are 
removed.  Whose  ground  is  it?  The  act  is  silent.  There  is  in'  this 
silence  the  portent  of  the  conceivable  purpose  of  the  Bill.  Some  one 
may  want  this  ground.  These  neglected  bodies  are  in  the  way.  This 
Bill  would  remove  them  and  make  easy  the  acquisition  by  some  one  of 
this  ground.  It  is  evident  that  such  ground  becomes  very  valuable. 
This  value  should  be  secured  to  all  the  people.  This  Bill  would  secure 
it  against  the  people. 

"  For  these  :  easons  this  Bill  is  not  approved." 

To  the  writer,  it  seems  not  only  a  fallacy  to  measure 
the  value  of  a  slirine  in  money  as  an  asset,  but  when  it 
includes  the  remains  of  one's  ancestors  it  is  abhorrent. 
Let  us  hope  the  trustees  of  the  Diocese  will  so  deter- 
mine, and  take  up  the  question  how  to  best  preserve 
Old  St.  Paul's  for  posterity,  and  decide  it  in  a  way  that 
will  meet  with  the  approval,  not  only  of  those  inter- 
ested in  St.  Paul's,  the  church  at  large  and  its  history, 
but  of  a  court  of  equity,  if  it  has  to  be  submitted  to  a 
court,  in  order  to  give  a  good  title  to  the  property  or 
for  any  other  cause,  and  not  by  selling  it  to  some  his- 
torical corporation  or  Society  as  has  been  suggested, 
which  would  be  discreditable  alike  to  the  trustees  of  the 
Diocese  and  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  itself. 


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AETICLES  OF  AGREEMENT,^  ETC. 

Certain  agreements,  concessions  and  constitutions,  made,  concluded, 
and  agreed  upon,  by  and  between  the  subscribers  and  contributors, 
for  raising  a  sum  of  money  for  purchasing  or  renting  one  or  more 
lots  of  ground,  and  building  a  church,  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia, 
the  twenty-fourth  day  of  June,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thou- 
sand seven  hundred  and  sixty. 

WHEREAS  the  Reverend  William  Macelenachan,  a  minister  of 
the  established  church  of  England,  travelling  through  the  city  of 
Philadelphia,  was,  after  experience  of  his  religious  abilities,  and 
ardent  zeal  for  the  promotion  of  Christianity,  prevailed  on  to  exer- 
cise the  office  and  duties  of  a  minister,  by  a  large  number  of  the 
reputable,  religious,  and  well  disposed  part  of  the  congregation  of 
Christ's  church,  in  Philadelphia,  and  accordingly  was  admitted,  pro- 
nounced, and  declared,  at  the  instance,  and  request,  and  with  the  as- 
sent of  the  said  congregation,  by  the  rector,  vestry  and  church-war- 
dens of  the  said  church,  an  assistant  minister  to  the  said  rector,  and 
by  them  recommended  to  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London,  for  his  licence 
for  that  purpose.  And  whereas,  notwithstanding  the  said  Reverend 
William  Macelenachan  did,  before  his  said  admission,  procure  the 
most  ample  testimonials  as  well  of  his  moral  as  religious  life  and 
conversation,  and  hath  since  behaved  himself,  in  his  said  office,  with 
exemplary  piety  among  the  people,  exerting  himself  in  the  cause  of 
Christianity  with  remarkable  industry,  and  indefatigable  zeal;  and 
notwithstanding  the  strong  and  earnest  desire  of  the  congregation  to 
enjoy  the  advantage  of  the  ministry  of  the  said  Rev.  William  Mac- 
elenachan, arising  from  the  great  benefit  they  have  received  from  his 

1  Articles  |  of  |  Agreement,  &c.  |  for  raising  a  sum  of  money,  |  to  pur- 
chase I  a  lot  of  ground,  |  and  erecting  thereon  |  a  church,  |  (since  known 
by  the  name  of  St.  Paul's  Church.)  |  In  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  | 
and  for  vesting  the  same,  with  the  lot  on  which  |  it  is  constructed,  in  cer- 
tain trustees.  |  To  which  is  added,  |  The  Act,  with  a  Supplement  to  |  th« 
Act  for  Incorporating  |  St.  Paul 's  Church,  |  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia. 
Philadelphia:  |  Printed  by  Jesper  Harding  |  1818. | 

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doctrines  and  examples;  and  notwithstanding  their  said  recommen- 
dation to  the  bishop,  the  said  rector,  vestry  and  church-wardens, 
without  any  good  and  sufficient  cause  or  reason,  or  ever  hearing  the 
said  Reverend  William  Macclenachan,  in  defence  of  any  charge  of 
misbehaviour,  they  had  to  alledge  against  him,  have  dismissed  from 
his  said  office  of  an  assistant  minister,  and  refused  him  the  use  of 
the  pulpit  of  the  said  church.  And  whereas  a  number  of  well  dis- 
posed persons  having  had  experience  of  the  said  Reverend  William 
Macclenachan's  religious  and  exemplary  deportment  and  sound  prin- 
ciples of  Christianity,  and  being  resolved,  as  far  as  in  them  lies,  to 
support  and  maintain  their  religious  rights  and  privileges  have  sub- 
scribed and  agreed  to  contribute  a  large  sum  of  money  for  the  pur- 
chasing or  taking  on  ground  rent  one  or  more  lots  of  ground,  within 
the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  for  building  and  erecting  thereon  a 
commodious  house  for  the  worship  of  GOD;  which  house,  when  cov- 
ered in,  is  forever  to  be  and  to  remain  to  and  for  the  several  uses, 
and  subject  to  the  several  trusts,  concessions,  agreements,  and  con- 
stitutions herein  after  mentioned  and  expressed,  and  to  and  for  no 
other  use,  intent,  or  purpose  whatsoever. 

Now  know  all  Christian  People,  whom  it  may  concern.  That  we, 
the  under  named  subscribers  and  contributors,  have  conceded  to,  con- 
cluded and  agreed  on,  and  by  these  presents  do  concede  to,  conclude 
and  agree  on  the  following  fundamental  articles,  rules,  concessions 
and  constitutions,  for  erecting,  building,  future  support  and  govern- 
ment of  the  said  church,  the  true  intent  and  meaning  whereof  are 
not  to  be  hereafter  altered,  changed,  impaired,  or  diminished,  but 
shall  remain  in  full  force  and  virtue,  and  inviolable  forever: — 

First,  That  all  sums  of  money  already  subscribed  or  contributed^ 
or  that  hereafter  shall  be  subscribed  or  contributed,  for  the  purpose 
aforesaid,  shall  be  laid  out,  paid  and  expended  in  purchasing  or  tak- 
ing on  ground  rent,  some  convenient  lot  or  lots  of  ground  within 
the  city  of  Philadelphia,  and  in  building,  erecting,  and  completely 
finishing  thereon,  a  large  commodious  house;  which  house,  when 
built,  shall  be  used  and  employed  as  a  house  of  public  worship  for- 
ever, wherein  shall  be  read,  performed,  and  taught  the  liturgy,  rites, 
ceremonies,  doctrines,  and  true  principles  of  the  established  church  of 
England,  according  to  the  plain,  literal  and  grammatical  sense  of  the 
thirty-nine  articles  of  the  said  church,  and  no  other  whatsoever,  and 
the  same  house  is  hereby  agreed  forever  hereafter  to  be  stiled  and 
called  by  the  name  of  Saint  Paul's  Church, 

Secondly,  That  the  lot  or  lots  of  ground  so  to  be  purchased,  or 
taken  on  ground  rent,  together  with  the  buildings  and  improvements 

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thereon  to  be  erected  and  made  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  conveyed  unto, 
and  vested  in  fourteen  such  persons  and  their  heirs  forever,  as  the 
subscribers  and  contributors,  professing  members  of  the  church  of 
England,  or  a  majority  of  them  by  way  of  ballot,  shall  choose, 
nominate  and  elect  in  trust;  nevertheless,  that  they  and  the  survivors 
and  survivor  of  them,  and  their  heirs,  to  such  survivors,  shall,  and 
do,  at  all  times  hereafter,  at  the  reasonable  request,  cost  and  charge 
of  the  congregation  of  the  said  church,  or  of  a  majority  of  them, 
signified  in  writing,  under  the  hands  of  the  vestry,  for  the  time 
being,  grant  and  convey  the  same  unto  such  person  and  persons  his 
and  their  heirs,  as  shall  be  nominated  and  appointed  for  that  pur- 
pose, by  the  said  members  and  congregation,  or  by  a  majority  of 
them,  to  be  determined  by  way  of  ballot,  at  any  annual  election  of 
the  officers  of  the  said  church,  in  trust;  nevertheless,  and  to,  for, 
and  upon  such  and  the  uses,  intents,  trusts,  and  purposes,  as  are 
before,  or  hereafter  in  these  presents  mentioned,  expressed,  directed, 
or  appointed,  and  no  other,  provided  that  the  trustees,  for  the  time 
being,  be  first  well  and  sufficiently  saved  harmless  and  indemnified 
of  and  from  all  annuities,  rent  or  charges,  which  they  shall  covenant 
or  undertake  to  pay  for  the  lot  or  lots  of  ground  aforesaid. 

Thirdly,  That  the  Reverend  William  Macclenachan  aforesaid,  shall 
be,  and  is  hereby  nominated,  constituted,  elected,  and  chosen  the 
minister  of  the  said  church,  to  do  and  perform  all  the  offices  and 
duties  to  his  said  office  pertaining,  during  his  good  behaviour,  moral 
and  religious  life  and  conversation,  and  that  upon  the  disease  or  the 
removal  of  the  said  Reverend  William  Macclenachan,  a  successor 
shall  be  chosen  and  appointed,  by  way  of  ballot,  and  in  no  other  way 
or  manner,  by  the  members  of  the  said  church,  or  congregation,  or 
a  majority  of  them  assembled  for  that  purpose;  which  successor 
shall  hold  and  enjoy  his  said  office  during  his  good  behaviour,  moral 
and  religious  life  and  conversation,  and  in  such  way,  manner,  and 
form,  and  no  otherways,  from  time  to  time  forever  hereafter,  shall 
all  succeeding  ministers  be  elected  and  chosen,  which  congregation 
shall  be,  and  are  hereby  declared  to  be,  such  only  as  are  professing 
members  of  the  church  of  England,  and  contributors  to  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  the  said  church,  and  its  minister  or  ministers, 
and  having  and  paying  for  a  setting  in  the  said  church,  and  of 
full  age. 

Fourthly,  That  an  assistant  or  assistants  to  the  Reverend  William 
Maeelenaehan,  or  to  any  of  his  successors,  ministers  in  the  said 
church,  shall  and  may,  as  often  as  deemed  necessary,  be  elected  and 

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chosen'  by  the  said  congregation,  or  a  majority  of  them,  by  way  of 
ballot,  and  in  no  other  way  whatsoever,  who  shall  hold  the  said 
office  of  assistant  to  the  minister  for  the  time  being,  during  his  good 
behaviour,  moral  and  religious  life  and  conversation;  provided 
always,  that  every  such  minister  and  assistant,  appointed  and  chosen 
as  aforesaid,  shall  have  first  obtained  the  orders  of  a  priest  of  the 
established  church  of  England,  and  be  duly  ordained  by  the  bishop  of 
the  said  church,  in  Great  Britain  or  Ireland,  and  shall,  by  the  con- 
gregation, or  a  majority  of  them,  be  adjudged  sound  in  his  prin- 
ciples, according  to  the  plain,  literal  and  grammatical  sense  of  the 
thirty-nine  articles  of  the  said  church;  of  a  moral  and  religious  life 
and  conversation,  well  acquainted  with  vital  and  experimental  piety. 

Fifthly,  That  for  the  better  management  and  economy  of  the  said 
church,  and  for  repairing  and  preserving  the  same,  and  the  inclosures 
of  the  church  yard  and  burial  ground,  from  decay,  there  shall  be 
elected  and  chosen,  at  or  in  the  said  church,  by  ballot,  and  in  no 
other  way,  under  the  direction  of  the  former  vestry  and  church- 
wardens, or  as  many  as  shall  assemble  on  Easter  Monday,  in  every 
year,  a  new  vestry,  consisting  of  twenty  sober  reputable  and  religious 
persons  of  the  said  congregation,  who  shall  superintend  and  take 
care  of  and  repair  the  said  church  and  inclosures,  and  do  and  per- 
form all  and  every  other  thing  and  duty  there  appertaining;  also, 
that  on  the  same  day  there  shall  be  chosen  and  elected  two  church- 
wardens by  and  out  of  the  vestry  aforesaid,  by  way  of  ballot,  which 
wardens  shall  be  and  are  hereby  made  subject  to  the  orders  and 
directions  of  the  vestry,  and  shall  have  no  other  or  further  power 
and  authority  than  is  hereby  given  and  granted  unto  the  vestry. 

Sixthly,  That  the  vestry,  for  the  time  being,  shall  hire  or  rent  out 
the  pews,  collect  and  receive  the  pew  money,  box  money,  and  all  the 
other  revenues  and  incomes  of  the  said  church,  (surplice  fees  ex- 
cepted) and  shall  from  time  to  time,  appropriate,  pay  and  dispose 
in  the  following  order: 

First,  the  annuities  or  rent  charges  which  shall  be  issuing  out  of 
or  chargeable  on  the  lot  or  lots  of  ground,  so  to  be  procured  as  afore- 
said. Secondly,  the  salaries  of  the  clerk  and  sexton  of  the  said 
church,  the  reparations  and  amendments  thereof,  and  of  the  church 
yard  and  burial  ground,  with  the  other  incidental  charges  and  ex- 
penses of  the  said  church.  And  lastly,  the  overplus,  or  clear  residue 
and  remainder  of  such  pew  money,  box  money,  and  revenues  and 
incomes  of  the  said  church,  shall  be  paid  into  the  hands  of  the  min- 
ister of  the  said  church,  and  his  assistant,  for  the  time  being,  in  such 
parts,  portions  and  dividends  as  the  congregation,  or  a  majority  of 

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them,  by  way  of  ballot,  as  aforesaid,  when  assembled  for  that  pur- 
pose, shall  limit,  direct  or  appoint. 

Seventhly,  That  the  minister  of  the  said  church,  for  the  time  being, 
shall  or  may,  so  often  as  he  shall  think  proper,  ask  and  invite  any 
orthodox  minister  of  the  church  of  England  occasionally  to  officiate 
for  him  in  the  said  church,  and  in  case  any  objection  be  made 
thereto  by  a  majority  of  the  said  congregation  or  vestry,  for  the 
time  being,  after  once  hearing  the  minister  so  invited,  shall  be  no 
more  asked  or  admitted  to  that  service;  provided  always,  that  noth- 
ing herein  contained  shall  be  deemed  or  construed  to  extend  to 
authorize  or  impower  any  minister,  or  vestry  or  church-wardens  of 
the  said  church,  to  nominate  and  appoint,  elect  or  establish,  any 
minister  or  ministers  in  the  said  church,  contrary  to  the  true  intent 
and  meaning  of  these  present  constitutions;  also,  all  elections,  votes, 
determinations  and  appointments  shall  be  had,  given,  and  made  by 
the  congregation  and  vestry,  or  a  majority  of  them,  by  way  of  ballot, 
and  in  no  other  way  or  manner  whatsoever. 

AN  ACT 

Incorporating  St.  Paul's  Church, 

in  the  city  op  philadelphia. 

Section  I.  WHEREAS  divers  members  of  the  Episcopal  church, 
formerly  in  communion  with  the  church  of  England,  did  many  years 
ago,  at  a  very  considerable  expense,  erect  and  build  an  house  for 
the  public  worship  of  God  in  the  city  of  Phila- 
delphia, which  they  nominated  and  stiled  St. 
Paul's  Church,  by  certain  constitutions  and  a  special  agreement  vest- 
ing the  same  church,  together  with  the  lot  of  ground  on  which  it  is 
constructed,  in  certain  persons  in  trust:  And  whereas  the  survivors 
of  the  said  trustees,  together  with  the  present  vestrymen  of  the 
above  named  church,  have  set  forth  and  represented  the  disadvan- 
tages which  they  have  sustained,  and  yet  experience,  from  the  want 
of  legal  power  and  consideration  as  a  politic  and  corporate  body; 
and  also  have  petitioned  that  they,  the  said  survivors  together  with 
the  other  members  of  the  religious  society  who  assemble  in  the  said 
church,  may  be  incorporated,  and  furnished  with  the  due  and  cus- 
tomary privileges  in  this  behalf,  and  that  they  may  have  perpetual 
succession:  And  whereas  it  is  just  and  proper,  and  perfectly  con- 
sistent with  the  true  intention  and  spirit  of  the  constitution,  that 
the  prayer  of  their  said  petition  be  granted. 

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Section  II.    Be  it  therefore  enacted,  and  it  is  hereby  enacted  by 
the  Representatives  of  the  Freemen  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Penn- 
sylvania, in  General  Assembly  met,  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same, 
That  the  Rev.  Samuel  Magaw,  Doctor  of  divinity,  rector  or  minister 
of  the   said   church,   John   Wood^   and  Lambert 
Wilmer^  the  present  wardens,  and  Plunket  Fleeson, 
John  Young,  Andrew  Boz,  George  Goodwin,  John 
Campbell,*  George  Ord,  Blair  M'Clenachan,  Wm.  Graham,  George 
Glentworth,^  Joseph  Bullock,'^  Saml.  Penrose,"^  George  Nelson,  Richard 
Renshaw,  Joseph  Turner,  John  Keble,^  John  Bates,  James  Dough- 


2  John  Wood,  an  original  subscriber  and  twenty-four  years  church 
warden,  was  the  well-known  clock  and  watch-maker  of  "The  Sign  of  the 
Dial,"  Front  and  Chestnut  Streets,  q.  v. 

3  Lambert  Wilmer,  son  of  Simon  Wilmer  of  Shrewsbury  Parish,  Kent 
County,  Maryland,  by  his  wife  Mary  Price,  was  born  there,  June  8,  1747, 
and  died  at  Philadelphia,  March  9,  1825;  married  at  St.  Paul's,  October 
12,  1770,  Mary  Barker.    He  was  a  vestryman  in  1772  and  1773. 

♦  John  Campbell,  tea  merchant  at  1  South  Front  Street  and  14  High 
Street,  and  member  of  the  Hibernian  Society;  married  November  2,  1771, 
Mary  Wood.  He,  his  wife  and  son,  Dr.  John  Campbell  were  interred  in 
St.  Paul's  ground. 

0  George  Glentworth,  M.D.,  son  of  Thomas  Glentworth,  a  prominent  sea- 
captain  of  Philadelphia,  was  born  there  in  July,  1735.  He  began  the 
Btudy  of  medicine  imder  his  brother-in-law.  Dr.  Peter  Sonmans  and  com- 
pleted it  in  Europe,  receiving  the  M.D.  degree  from  the  University  of 
Edinburgh  in  1758.  After  serving  as  an  assistant  surgeon  in  the  British 
army  during  the  French  and  Indian  War,  he  practised  his  profession  in 
his  native  city.  In  1773  he  established  a  private  hospital  and  from  1777 
until  1780,  and  possibly  later,  was  a  senior  surgeon  in  the  hospitals  of  the 
American  Army,  and,  it  is  said,  extracted  the  ball  which  wounded  Gen- 
eral Lafayette  at  the  battle  of  Brandywine.  He  was  a  signer  of  the 
Non-Importation  Eesolutions;  a  founder  of  the  Fishing  Company  of 
Fort  St.  Davids,  which  merged  into  the  Fishing  Company  of  the  State  in 
Schuylkill;  a  founder  of  the  Medical  Society  of  Pennsylvania;  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Philosophical  Society;  an  incorporator  of  the  Society 
of  Sons  of  St.  George,  and  a  founder  of  the  College  of  Physicians  of 
Philadelphia,  of  which  he  was  one  of  its  twelve  Senior  Fellows.  He  died 
at  Philadelphia,  4  November,  1792,  and  was  buried  in  the  Glentworth 
vault  in  St.  Paul 's  churchyard,  his  funeral  being  ' '  attended  by  the  great- 
est concourse  of  respectable  citizens  ever  assembled  in  Philadelphia  on  a 
similar  occasion."  A  portrait  of  Dr.  Glentworth,  by  John  Singleton 
Copley,  is  in  Independence  Hall.  He  married,  29  Nov.,  1764,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  John  Linton  by  his  wife  Martha  Bankson.  His  sons,  Drs. 
Peter  Sonmans  Glentworth  and  Plunket  Fleeson  Glentworth  were  gradu- 
ates of  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.    The 

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erty  and  Benjamin  Towne,  grocer,  present  vestrymen  of  the  said 
church,  and  their  successors,  duly  elected  and  nominated  in  their 
place  and  stead,  be,  and  they  are  hereby  made  and  constituted  a  cor- 
poration, and  body  politic  in  law  and  in  fact,  to  have  continuance  for 
ever,  by  the  name  and  title  of  ''  The  Minister  Church  Wardens  and 
Vestrymen  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul,  in  the  city  of 
Philadelphia,  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania." 

former  was  a  martyr  to  his  profession,  and  died  in  1793,  in  the  yellow 
fever  epidemic  of  that  year.  The  other  son,  Dr.  Plunket  Fleeson  Glent- 
worth,  was  secretary  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1791;  a  Fel- 
low of  the  College  of  Physicians ;  a  founder  of  the  Academy  of  Fine  Arts, 
and  a  trustee  of  the  Society  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  for  the 
Advancement  of  Christianity  in  Pennsylvania.  During  the  residence  of 
General  Washington  in  Philadelphia,  he  was  attended  by  Dr.  Glentworth, 
who  is  thus  mentioned  by  Washington  in  a  letter,  under  date  of  20  April, 
1797 :  ' '  Thanks  to  the  kind  attention  of  my  esteemed  friend  Doctor 
Glentworth  .  .  .  than  whom  no  nobler  man  or  skillful  physician  ever 
lived,  I  am  now  restored  to  my  usual  state  of  health. ' ' 

6  Joseph  Bullock  was  one  of  the  two  surviving  children  of  George 
Bullock,  who  died  in  1758,  the  other  being  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Peter  Bayn- 
ton,  Esq.,  Treasurer  and  Adjutant  General  of  Pennsylvania,  whose  sis- 
ter, Esther  Baynton,  he  had  married  and  by  whom  he  had  children: 
Joseph  Bullock,  Sophia  Bullock,  Anna  Maria  Bullock,  who  d.s.p.,  and 
Eebecca  Bullock,  who  married  15  Dec,  1803,  Charles  J.  Wister. 

7  Samuel  Penrose,  son  of  Thomas  Penrose  by  his  wife  Sarah  Coats, 
born  at  Philadelphia,  14  Nov.,  1742;  died  there  in  1796,  was  a  member 
of  the  Provincial  Convention  which  met  in  Philadelphia,  23  January, 
1775;  one  of  the  founders  of  the  First  Troop  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry, 
of  which  organization  he  was  quart«rmaster-sergeant  in  1777  and  served 
as  such  until  the  close  of  the  Eevolution,  his  name  being  placed  on  the 
honorary  roll  in  1786;  an  organizer  of  the  Pennsylvania  Bank  in  1780, 
and  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly  of  1781-2-3.  He  married 
1st.,  3  AprU,  1766,  Ann.  daughter  of  Plunket  Fleeson  Esq.,  q.v.;  2d., 
30  September,  1780,  Sarah  Moulder,  and  had  issue  by  both  marriages. — 
See  "History  of  the  Penrose  Family,"  by  J.  Granville  Leach,  pp.  25, 
50-1. 

8  John  Keble,  a  native  of  England,  was  some  years  a  vestryman  and  a 
considerable  benefactor  of  St.  Paul's.  In  April,  1806,  he  presented  the 
baptismal  font,  and,  by  wiU  of  24  Sept.,  1807,  bequeathed  his  house  and 
lot  on  north  side  of  Pearson's  Court  for  the  use  of  aged  mdows  of  the 
Church,  with  an  additional  legacy  of  one  thousand  dollars,  of  which  one- 
fourth  was  for  repairs  on  said  house,  one-fourth  towards  purchase  of  an 
organ,  one-fourth  towards  cupola  for  church,  and  one-fourth  towards  the 
purchase  of  a  bell  for  the  church.  He  married  17  Oct.,  1771,  Abigail 
Spicer,  and  died  29  Sept.,  1807,  aed  sixty-three  years,  q.v. 

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Section  III.    And  he  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  afore- 
said, That  the  said  minister,  church-wardens  and  vestrymen,   and 
their  successors,  by  the  name  and  title  aforesaid,  shall  forever  here- 
after be  persons  able  and  capable  in  law  to  pur- 
Corporation  may  ^^^se,  have,  receive,  take,  hold  and  enjoy,  in  fee 
purchase  and      simple,   or  of   any   lesser  estate  or  estates,   any 
hold  land,  &c.     lands,  tenements,  rents,  annuities,  liberties,  fran- 
chises and  other  hereditaments,  by  the  gift,  grant, 
bargain,  sale,  alienation,  enfeoffment,  release,  confirmation  or  devise 
of  any  person  or  persons,  bodies  politic  or  corporate,  capable  to 
make  the  same;  and  further,  that  the  said  corporation  may  take  and 
receive  any  sum  or  sums  of  money,  and  any  kind,  manner  or  por- 
tion of  goods  and  chattels,  that  shall  be  given  or  bequeathed  to  the 
said  minister,  church-wardens  and  vestrymen,  and  their  successors, 
by  any  person  or  persons,  bodies  politic  and  corporate,  capable  to 
make  a  gift  or  bequest  thereof,  such  money,  goods  and  chattels  to  be 
laid  out  by  them  in  a  purchase  or  purchases  of  lands,  tenements, 
messuages,  houses,  rents,  annuities  or  hereditaments,  to  them  and 
their  successors  forever. 

Section  IV.     And  he  it  further  enacted  hy  the  authority  afore- 
said, That  the  rents  and  revenues,  profits  and  interests  of  the  said 
church  and  corporation  shall,  by  the  said  minister,  church-wardens 
and  vestrymen,  and  their  successors  from  time  to 
Manner  of         time,  be  appointed  for  the  maintenance  and  sup- 
applying  the       pQj^  q£  ^.jjg  minister  or  ministers,  and  ofl&cers  of 
^  the  said  church,  and  for  the  necessary  repairs  of 

the  said  church,  burial  ground,  church  yard,  par- 
sonage house  or  houses,  and  other  tenements,  which  do  now  or  here- 
after may  or  shall  belong  to  the  said  church  and  corporation,  and 
to  no  other  use  or  purpose  whatsoever. 

Section  V.    And  he  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  aforesaid, 

That  the  said  minister,  church-wardens  and  vestrymen,  and  their 

successors,  shall  and  may  grant,  alien,  or  otherwise 

Corporation   may  ^igpogg  of  ^^y  messuages,  houses,  lands,  tenements 

J!  J.Z.       X  X     o_     or   hereditaments,    other   than    the    scite    of    the 
of  the  estate,  &c. 

house  of  public  worship  or  church  aforesaid,  and 

the  burial  ground  or  grounds  which  they  do  now  or  may  hereafter 

possess,  as  to  them  may  seem  meet  and  proper. 

Section  VI.     Provided  always,  and  he  it  further  enacted  hy  the 

authority  aforesaid,  That  in  the  disposition,  sale  or  alienation  of  such 

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^i0tot^  of  fet  paur0  (Epfiefcopal  CJutcS 

messuages,  houses,  lands,  tenements  and  hereditaments,  the  consent 

and  concurrence  of  two-thirds  of  the  vestry  shall 

^°"    "  be  had  and  obtained,  and  also  the  monies  arising 

tliG  V6stry 

from  the  said  disposition  or  sale  shall  be  appro- 
consenting.  .  1  ,     .  ,  .  , 

priated   to   the   purchasmg   and   procuring  other 

more  convenient  messuages,  houses,  lands  or  tenements,  as  the  afore- 
said majority  of  vestry  may  deem  proper  and  expedient,  and  to  no 
other  purpose  or  purposes  whatsoever. 

Section  VII.     And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  afore- 
said, That  the  said  minister,  church-wardens  and  vestrymen,   and 
their  successors,  or  a  majority  of  them,  shall  and  may  convene  from 
time  to  time,  to  make  rules,  by-laws  and  ordi- 
^  '^    *  ^  nances,  and  to  transact  every  thing  requisite  for 

.  '     the   good   government   and   support   of   the   said 

church:  Provided  always,  That  the  said  rules,  by- 
laws and  ordinances  be  not  repugnant  to  the  laws  and  statutes  in 
force  within  this  commonwealth,  and  that  they  be  consonant  to  the 
usages  and  customs  of  the  skid  church. 

Section  VIII.     And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  afore- 
said. That  the  said  minister,  church-wardens  and  vestrymen,  shall 
Corporation  to      have   full    power   and   authority   to   make,   have 
use  one  common    and  use  one  common  seal,  with  such  device  or 
seal.  devices  and  inscription,  as  they  shall  think  proper, 

and  the  same  to  change,  break,  alter  and  renew  at  their  pleasure. 
Section  IX.    And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  afore- 
said.  That  the  said  minister,  church  wardens  and  vestrymen,  and 
their  successors,  by  the  name  before  mentioned,  shall  be  able  and 
capable  in  law  to  sue  and  be  sued,  plead  and  be 
^  impleaded,   in   any   court   or   courts,   before   any 

Judge  or  Judges,  Justice  or  Justices,  in  all  and 
all  manner  of  suits,  complaints,  causes,  matters  and  demands,  of 
whatsoever  kind,  nature  or  form  they  be;  and  all  and  every  other 
matter  and  thing  therein  to  do,  in  as  full  and  effectual  a  manner 
as  any  other  person  or  persons,  bodies  politic  or  corporate,  in  this 
commonwealth,  in  the  like  cases  may  or  can  do. 

Section  X.    And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  afore- 
said, That  the  vestry  of  the  said  church  shall  always  consist  of 
twenty  persons,  members  of  the  said  church,  of  which  number  the 
church  wardens  are  always  to  be  two;  and  that 
um  er  o         ^j^^  election  of  such  vestry  shall  be  made  every 
'       *    year  on  Easter  Monday,  or  some  day  in  the  same 
week,  (of  which  the  said  congregation  shall  have  notice,)  by  a  ma- 

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jority  of  such  members  of  the  said  church,  as  shall  appear  by  the 
vestry  books  to  be  contributors  to  the  support  and  maintenance  of 
the  said  church,  having  and  paying  for  a  pew,  or  a  part  of  a  pew, 
sufficient  for  one  person  at  the  least,  and  to  be  of  full  age,  who  only 
shall  have  a  right  to  vote  for  the  vestrymen  of  the  said  church. 

Section  XI.  And  be  it  further  enacted  hy  the  authority  afore- 
said, That  the  said  vestry  so  elected  shall  have  full  power  to  elect 
and  choose  annually  and  every  year,  two  of  their  number  to  be 
church  wardens  of  the  said  church:  Provided 
Vestry  to  choose  always  nevertheless,  That  in  case  of  the  death  or 
war  ens  annua  y.  j-gu^Qy^l   of  the   rector   or  principal  minister  of 

_      .  the  said  church,  from  the  death  or  removal  of 

Proviso.  . 

such  minister,  and  until  another  minister  shall  be 

duly  appointed  and  approved  for  the  said  church,  agreeably  to  former 

method  and  usage,  the  church  wardens  for  the  time  being,  with  the 

consent  of  the  major  part  of  the  vestrymen,  in  vestry  met,  shall  have 

the  same  powers  and  authorities  relating  to  the  disposition  of  the 

rents  and  revenues  of  the  said  corporation,  as  is  herein  before  vested 

in  the  minister,  church-wardens  and  vestrymen. 

Section  XII.  And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  afore- 
said, That  certain  "  agreements,  concessions  and  constitutions,  made, 
concluded  and  agreed  on,  by  and  between  the  subscribers  and  con- 
tributors"   to    the    church    above    named,    which 

Certain  agree-     agreements    and    constitution    bear    date    on    the 

,    ,      ,       ■         twenty-fourth  day  of  June,  in  the  year  of  our 

declared  to  be     ^      ,  -^        ^,  ^  t,     j    j       j     •  . 

£  £  M  £  m.     Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  sixty,  are 

of  full  force,  &c.  „  <,  „   „  ,  .  ^ 

and  shall  be  of  full  force  and  operation,  except 

so  far  as  there  is  provision  otherwise  appointed  and  made  special 
by  this  act,  and  except  the  restricting  clause  relative  to  the  ordina- 
tion of  the  minister,  or  assistant  minister  or  ministers,  by  a  bishop 
of  the  church  of  England,  in  Great  Britain  or  Ireland. 

Section  XIII.  And  be  it  further  enacted  by  the  authority  afore- 
said. That  the  clear  yearly  value  of  the  messuages,  houses,  lands, 
tenements,  rents,  annuities,  or  other  hereditaments,  and  real  estate 

of  the  said  corporation,  shall  not  exceed  the  sum 
imi  a  ion  o       ^^  ^^^  thousand  pounds  lawful  money  of  the  state 

of  Pennsylvania,  exclusive  of  the  monies  arising 
from  the  letting  of  the  pews  belonging  to  the  said  church,  and  also 
exclusive  of  the  monies  arising  from  the  opening  of  the  ground  for 
burials  in  the  church  yard,  belonging  to  the  said  church;  which  said 
monies  shall,  as  they  are  now,  be  received  and  disposed  of  by  the 

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churcli  wardens,  and  vestrymen  for  the  time  being,  for  the  purposes 
hereinbefore  mentioned  and  directed. 
Signed  by  order  of  the  House, 

Frederick  A.  Muhlenberg, 

Speaker. 

Enacted  into  a  law  at  Philadelphia,  on  Tuesday,  the  twenty-third 
day  of  September,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  eighty-three, 

Peter  Z.  Lloyd, 
Clerk  of  the  General  Assembly. 

Pennsylvania,  ss. 

Office  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Commonwealth. 

Harrisburg,  December  15th,  1818. 
In  testimony  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  and  correct  copy  from 
the  original  law,  remaining  on  the  files  of  this  office,  I  have  here- 
unto set  my  hand  and  seal  the  day  and  year  above  written. 

Thomas  Sergeant, 
Secretary. 


Pennsylvania,  ss. 

In  the  name  and  by  the  authority  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Penn- 
sylvania, WILLIAM  FINDLAY,  governor  of  the  said  Common- 
wealth, To  all  to  whom  these  presents  shall  come,  sends  greeting: 
Know  ye,  that  Thomas  Sergeant,  esq.  whose  name  is  subscribed  to 
the  instrument  of  writing  hereunto  annexed  was  at  the  time  of  sub- 
scribing the  same  secretary  of  the  said  Commonwealth;  duly  ap- 
pointed and  commissioned :  And  full  faith  and  credit  is  and  ought  to 
be  given  to  his  official  acts  accordingly. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  the  great  seal  of  the  state,  at  Harrisburg, 
this  sixteenth  day  of  December  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thou- 
sand eight  hundred  and  eighteen,  and  of  the  Commonwealth  the 
forty-second. 

By  the  Governor. 

Thomas  Sergeant, 

Secretary. 


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Corporation  for  the  Year  1818. 


Reverend  Joseph  Pilmore,  D.D.  Rector. 

CHURCH  WARDENS. 

P.  F.  Glentworth, 
John  Claxton. 

VESTRYMEN. 

Levi  Hollingsworth, 
John  Matthews, 
Christian  Wiltberger, 
Thomas  Palmer, 
Richard  Johnson, 
John  Turner, 
Edward  Rowley, 
Arthur  Stotesbury, 
Joseph  Norman, 
John  Phile, 
John  Pechin, 
Thomas  T.  Stiles, 
James  King,  Junr, 
Cornelius  Stevenson, 
John  Wharton, 
Richard  North, 
Samuel  J.  Robbins, 
John  Toy. 


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1    I    1    [    r 


ABSTRACTS  OF  TITLE  DEEDS  FOR  ST.  PAUL'S 
CHUBOH,  1760-1904 

DEED  BOOK  H,  NO.  9,  PAGE  295.     October  5,  1758. 

Samuel  Rhoads,  Hugh  Roberts  and  Jacob  Lewis,  partition  under 
Will  of  Samuel  Powell  deed.  Pursuant  to  the  direction  of  his  last 
will. 

(1)  To  Samuel  Morris,  lot  of  ground  purchased  by  Joan  Forrest 
being  in  front  on  Third  Street  82  ft.  or  thereabouts  and  in  depth 
47  ft.  3  in. 

(2)  To  Anthony  Morris  and  his  heirs,  A  certain  Lot  of  Ground 
situate  on  the  east  side  of  3rd  Street,  front  73  ft.  depth  195  feet 
more  or  less. 

(3)  To  Israel  Morris  and  his  heirs,  Lot  of  Ground  situate  on  east 
side  of  3d  street,  front  30  ft.  depth  195  ft.,  more  or  less. 

(4)  To  Sarah  Morris  and  her  heirs,  A  Certain  Lot  of  Ground 
situate  east  side  of  3d  street  31  ft.  depth  195  ft.  more  or  less. 

Recorded  December  8,  1758, 

DEED  BOOK  D,  NO.  54,  PAGE  363.    Dated  Sept.  16,  1760. 

Anthony  Moms  to  Thomas  Leech,  John  Ross,  John  Baynton, 
Walter  Goodman,  Thomas  Campbell,  John  Ord,  John  Palmer,  Plun- 
ket  Fleeson,  Ephraim  Benham,  John  Benezet,  John  KJiowles,  An- 
drew Bankson,  Andrew  Doz  and  Thomas  Charlton.  Lot  of  Ground 
situate  east  side  of  3d  street  front  23  ft.  depth  195  ft.  Reserved 
yearly  Ground  Rent  27  Spanish  Pistoles  consideration  540  Spanish 
Pistoles.  Recorded  May  16,  1776. 

DEED  BOOK  D,  NO.  54,  PAGE  367.    Dated  January  16,  1772. 

Anthony  Morris  to  John  Ross,  John  Baynton,  Walter  Goodman, 
John  Ord,  John  Palmer,  Plunket  Fleeson,  Ephraim  Benham,  James 
Benezet,  John  Knowles,  Andrew  Bankson,  Andrew  Doz,  Thomas 
Charlton,  Thomas  Leech  and  Thomas  Campbell  being  dead.     He  the 

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said  Anthony  Morris,  his  heirs,  executors,  administrators  and  as- 
signs do  covenant,  promise  and  agree  with  the  said  John  Ross, 
John  Baj'nton,  Walter  Goodman,  John  Ord,  John  Palmer,  Plunket 
rieeson,  Ephraim  Benham,  James  Benezet,  John  Knowles,  Andrew 
Bankson,  Andrew  Doz  and  Thomas  Charlton  their  heirs  and  assigns 
and  every  of  them  by  these  presents  in  manner  following  that  is  to 
say  the  sum  of  8  pistoles  per  annum  shall  forever  hereafter  abate  be 
extinct  out  of  the  within  Yearly  Rent  charge  of  27  pistoles. 

Recorded  May  16,  1776. 

DEED  BOOK  D,  NO.  60,  PAGE  415.    Dated  April  19,  1762. 

Israel  Morris  to  John  Ross,  John  Baynton,  Walter  Goodman, 
Thomas  Campbell,  John  Knowles,  John  Ord,  John  Palmer,  Plunket 
Fleeson,  Andrew  Doz,  Andrew  Bankson,  Ephraim  Benham,  James 
Benezet,  Thomas  Charlton  and  William  Shute.  Premises  situate 
on  east  side  of  3d  street  the  southernmost  part  of  two  lots  purchased 
by  Samuel  Powell  of  Thomas  Parsons  front  3d  street  30  feet  depth 
195  ft.  more  or  less.  Reserved  Ground  Rent  of  11  Spanish  Pistoles 
and  1/9  part  of  a  pistole,  consideration  222  Spanish  pistoles  and  2/9 
part  of  a  pistole.  Recorded  April  7,  1797. 

DEED  BOOK  D,  NO.  60,  PAGE  1121.    Dated  October  14,  1796. 

John  Palmer  to  Minister  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul. 

Premises  situate  on  east  side  of  3d  street  in  city  of  Philadelphia 
front  73  feet  depth  105  feet,  Subject  to  ground  rent  of  19  Spanish 
Pistoles.  Recorded  April  7,  1797. 

DEED  BOOK  NO.  62,  PAGE  396.    Dated  December  22,  1796. 

John  Palmer,  surviving  trustee  to  Minister  Church  Wardens  and 
Vestrymen  of  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul.  Premises  situate  east 
side  of  3d  street  front  30  ft.  depth  195  ft.  Subject  to  ground  rent  of 
11.1/9  Spanish  pistoles  to  Israel  Morris.      Recorded  April  7,  1797. 

DEED  BOOK  M.  R,  NO.  8,  PAGE  487.    Dated  February  1,  1797. 

Ministers  Church  Warden  and  Vestrymen  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
of  St.  Paul  to  Israel  Morris — securing  to  Israel  Morris  the  payment 
of  ground  rent  of  11.1/9  Spanish  Pistoles  on  account  of  the  original 
being  lost  or  mislaid  so  that  the  same  cannot  be  found.  The  above 
ground  rent  made  between  Israel  Morris  and  John  Rose,  John  Bayn- 

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ton,  Walter  Goodman,  Thomas  Campbell,  John  Knowles,  John  Ord, 
John  Palmer,  Plunket  Fleeson,  Andrew  Doz,  Andrew  Bankson, 
Ephraim  Benham,  James  Benezet,  Thomas  Charlton  and  William 
Shute.  Recorded  June  18, 1816. 

DEED  BOOK  L.  C,  NO.  9,  PAGE  462.  Dated  April  18,  1810. 
Samuel  Morris  to  the  Minister  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of 
the  Episcopal  Church  of  St.  Paul's  Extinguished  ground  rent  19 
Spanish  pistoles  payable  out  of  lot  east  side  of  3d  street,  front  73 
feet  depth  195  feet.  Recorded  April  20,  1810. 

DEED  BOOK  M.  R,  NO.  8,  PAGE  490.    Dated  April  24,  1816. 

Joseph  P.  Menniek,  Sur.  Assignee  of  Estate  of  William  Buckley 

1st  part  William  Buckley  and  Sarah  his  wife. 

2nd  part  Ministers  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  Episcopal 
Church  of  St.  Paul. 

Extinguishment  of  ground  rent  11.1/9  Spanish  pistoles. 

Recorded  April  18,  1816. 

DEED  BOOK  J.  V,  NO.  204,  PAGE  519.    Dated  April  10,  1901. 
The  Rectors  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  of  St.  Paul  to  the  Rector  Church  Warden  and  Vestrymen 
of  St.  Peter's  Church. 

(1)  Situate  on  the  east  side  of  3d  street  between  Walnut  and 
Spruce  Streets  (being  northernmost  parts  of  two  lots  purchased  by 
Samuel  Powell  of  Thomas  Parsons  and  assigned  to  Anthony  Mor- 
ris) front  street  73  feet  depth  105  feet. 

(2)  Situate  east  side  of  3d  street  between  Walnut  and  Spruce 
streets  (being  the  southernmost  part  of  2  lots  aforesaid  purchased 
by  Samuel  Powell  to  Thomas  Parsons  and  assigned  to  Israel  Morris 
front  30  ft.  depth  195  feet.  Recorded  April  10,  1901. 

DEED  BOOK  W.  S.  V,  NO.  284,  PAGE  350.    Dated  April  16, 

1904. 
The  Rector  Church  Warden  and  Vestrymen  of  St.  Peter's  Church 
to  the  Trustees  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Diocese  of 
Pennsylvania. 

(1)  All  That  certain  Lot  or  piece  of  ground  with  the  Church 
Edifice  erected  thereon  and  known  as  the  Episcopal  Church  of  St. 
Paul.  Situate  east  side  of  3d  street  between  Walnut  and  Spruce 
streets  front  73  feet  depth  195  feet. 

Recorded  April  30, 1904. 
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This  last  Deed  recites  that,  the  rector,  church  wardens  and  vestry 
of  St.  Peter's  Church,  desiring  to  continue  the  use  for  religious  pur- 
poses of  the  church  building  owned  by  them,  known  as  St.  Paul's 
Church,  on  Third  Street,  have  offered  to  convey  it  to  the  trustees  of 
the  Diocese,  to  hold  it  for  the  Philadelphia  Protestant  Episcopal  City 
Mission  so  long  as  that  body  shall  continue  to  use  it  for  the  purpose 
of  such  organization  and  keep  and  maintain  the  property  and  ground 
in  proper  order  and  condition,  and,  in  the  event  of  the  City  Mission 
no  longer  making  such  use  of  it,  to  hold  the  same  for  such  other  pur- 
poses and  objects,  with  restrictions,  as  the  Bishop  and  standing 
committee  of  the  Diocese  of  Pennsylvania  may  direct. 

The  legal  title  to  the  lot  of  St.  Paul's  Church  appears,  therefore, 
to  be  vested,  today,  in  the  Trustees  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church  in  the  Diocese  of  Pennsylvania.  The  assessed  value  of  the 
corporation  on  the  tax-books  of  the  city  is  $50,000,  although  as  a 
church  it  is,  under  the  law,  exempt  from  taxation. 


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THE  CHUECH  PLATE 

The  Sacramental  Silver  consists  of  thirteen  pieces,  described  as 
follows : 

Two  Chalices. — At  a  Meeting  of  the  Trustees  held  16  March,  1761, 
it  was  "  Ordered  that  Messrs.  Plunket  Fleeson  and  Thomas  Charlton 
be  a  Committee  to  employ  proper  persons  to  make,  and  with  all 
expedition  prepare  two  silver  chalices  for  the  use  of  St.  Paul's 
Church."  These  Chalices  are  the  oldest  pieces  of  Silver  belonging  to 
the  Church.  They  have  a  bell  shaped  body,  the  stem  with  moulded 
knop   and  moulded  base,  and  are  inscribed  "  St.  Paul's  Church." 

They  have  no  hall  mark. 

Dimensions,  Height  8  9/16  in.  Diameter  of  mouth  3  15/16  in.  and 
of  the  base  4  9/16  in. 

Two  Patens. — One  made  by  John  David  of  Philadelphia,  having  a 
fluted  edge  and  floriated  border,  engraved  with  leaves  and  birds.  It 
has  no  inscription.  Maker's  mark  "  I.  D."  in  a  shield  with  a  fleur-de- 
lis,  for  John  David. 

Dimensions,  Diameter  10  1/16  in. 

The  other,  having  moulded  edge,  with  three  moulded  feet. 

Dimensions,  Diameter  of  top  11  in.,  of  base  8  7/8  in.,  height  1 1/16 
in'.  No  maker's  mark.  It  is  inscribed,  "  St.  Paul's  Church,  Phila- 
delphia, 1829." 

Two  Flagons. — One  made  by  John  David,  and  presented  by  Mrs. 
Rebecca  Doz  and  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Martha  Flower  in  1792,  and  in- 
scribed, "  Belonging  |  to  the  |  Altar  ]  of  St.  Paul's  Church."  Maker's 
mark  "David." 

Another  made  by  Christian  Wiltberger  of  Philadelphia,  and  in- 
scribed, "  The  Gift  |  of  |  Mrs.  Ann  Cannon  |  to  the  |  Altar  |  of  |  St. 
Paul's  Church."  Maker's  mark  "  C.  Weltberger."  These  flagons 
have  a  plain  "bellied"  body,  and  moulded  base,  the  thumb  piece  a 
plain  arch  with  a  plain  flat  shield  on  handle  end. 

Dimensions.  Height  9  3/8  in.  Diameter  of  mouth,  4  1/2  in. 
and  of  the  base  4  9/16  in. 

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One  Baptismal  Bowl. — Made  by  Christian  Wiltberger,  and  in- 
scribed, «  The  Gift  of  a  Friend  to  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philad^.,  Dec'. 
25*'^.  1805." 

A  plain  oval  bowl,  the  body  being  divided  into  eight  sections, 
above  which  a  flat  band,  the  edge  being  go-drooned,  the  base  is  octag- 
onal. 

Dimensions,  7  1/2  in.  by  6  1/2  in.,  height  5  1/2  in. 

Maker's  mark  "  C.  Wiltberger."    Weight  21  oz.  4  dwt. 

When  used  for  Baptism  it  stands  on  an  octagonal  mahogany  pedes- 
tal, having  a  cover  with  a  gilt  flame  finial,  when  not  in  use. 

Two  Alms  Basins. — Made  by  Joseph  Lower  of  Philadelphia  and 
inscribed,  "Belonging  |  to  the  |  Altar  |  of  |  St.  Paul's  Church  | 
Joseph  Pilmore,  D.D.,  Rector.  |  1820."  They  have  grooved  rims 
and  curved  bases  and  weigh  19  oz.  19  dwt. 

Dimensions:  One  2  7/8  in.  high;  Base  5  in.  by  3  9/16  in.;  Top 
9  3/8  in.  by  7  5/16  in.  The  other,  2  13/16  in.  high.  Base  5  in.  by 
3  3/4  in.    Top  9  9/16  in.  by  7  9/16  in. 

Maker's  mark  "  Lovter." 

One  Alms  Basin. — Made  by  R.  &  W.  Wilson  of  Philadelphia,  and 
inscribed,  "Communion  Table.  St.  Paul's  Church.  Richard  New- 
ton. Rector.    Easter  1848." 

Dimensions  2  7/8  in  high.  Base  5  in',  by  3  3/4  in.  Top  9  5/16 
in.  by  7  7/16  in.    Maker's  mark  "  R.  &  W.  Wilson." 

Pattern  same  as  the  two  described  above. 

Three  Alms  Basins. — No  inscriptions  and  no  maker's  marks. 

Dimensions  and  pattern  same  as  last  described. 


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THE  CHURCH  REGISTERS 

BAPTISMS,  MARRIAGES,  BURIALS,  AND  RECORD  OF 
INTERMENTS 

I.  One  Leather  bound  Book  with  label  on  the  front  cover,  "Rec- 
ords of  St.  Paul's  Church  from  1760  to  1835." 

The  first  38  pages  contain  minutes  of  the  Vestry  from  June  24, 
1760,  to  April  23,  1764,  and  the  remaining  entries  are  of  Baptisms, 
Marriages  and  Burials. 

Baptisms  from  Nov.  3,  1782,  to  Nov.  11,  1802 
Oct.  31,  1784,  to  Oct.  4,  1829 
July  22,  1834,  to  Jan.  28,  1835 
Marriages  from  Sept.  14,  1759,  to  July  25,  1765 
Sept.  8, 1768,  to  Sept.  20,  1778 
Sept.  29,  1781,  to  May  1,  1804 
Dec.  20,  1834,  to  Jan.  15,  1835 
Burials  from  Jan.  14,  1790,  to  March  8,  1805 

II.  One  small  paper  cover  bound  book,  being  the  Private  Register 
of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Pilmore,  D.D.,  Rector,  contains: 

Marriages  from  March  20,  1786,  to  March  16,  1813 

III.  One  small  paper  cover  bound  book,  containing: 
Baptisms  from  Nov.  8,  1821,  to  May  25,  1829 
Marriages  from  Dec.  20,  1821,  to  April  14,  1829 
Burials  from  Nov.  15,  1821,  to  May  16, 1829 

IV.  One  small  black  leather  bound  Book  containing: 
Baptisms  from  June  17,  1829,  to  June  18,  1865,  entered  in 

alphabetical  order. 
Marriages  from  July  28,  1829,  to  April  11,  1865 
Burials  from  June  11,  1829,  to  March  25,  1865 

V.  A  book  with  cloth  binding,  leather  back  and  corners,  containing : 
Baptisms  from  March  30,  1866,  to  May  6,  1888 

Marriages  from  March  15,  1866,  to  June  12,  1888 
Burials  from  March  6,  1866,  to  Feb.  28,  1888 

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VI.  A  Register  of  Interments.  Leather  bound  Book,  containing 
record  of  burials  in  the  Church  Yard  from  June  9,  1811,  to  April 
5,  1851. 

VII.  A  Register  of  Interments.  Containing  record  of  burials  in 
the  Church  Yard  from  April  7,  1852,  to  Oct.  8,  1855,  and  from  Jan. 
1,  1856,  to  July  7,  1869. 

VIII.  One  book  containing: 

Baptisms  from  April  6,  1890,  to  July  11,  1897 
M-arriages  from  Oct.  15,  1890,  to  Sept.  21,  1897 
Burials  from  Apl.  17,  1890,  to  Feb.  8,  1897 


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EXCERPTS  FROM  THE  MINUTES  OF  THE 

PROTESTANT  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH, 

PHILADELPHIA 

JOURNAL  1789,  PAGE  94. 

Christ  Church,  Thursday,  October  1,  1789. 
"  The  Meeting  in  Christ  Church  being  found  inconvenient  to  the 
members  in  several  respects. 

"  On  motion,  Resolved,  That  the  Rev.  Dr.  "William  Smith  and  the 
Hon.  Mr.  Secretary  Hopkinson,  be  appointed  to  wait  upon  his  Ex- 
'Cellency,  Thomas  Mifflin  Esq.,  the  President  of  the  State,  and  to  re- 
quest leave  for  the  Convention  to  hold  their  Meeting  in  some  con- 
venient apartment  in  the  State  House." 


"  The  Rev.  Dr.  William  Smith  and  Hon.  Mr,  Hopkinson,  reported 
that  the  President  of  the  State  had  very  politely  given  permission  to 
the  Convention  to  hold  their  meeting  at  the  State  House,  in  the  apart- 
ments of  the  General  Assembly,  until  they  shall  be  wanted  for  the 
public  service. 

"  Adjourned  to  meet  at  the  State  House  tomorrow  morning." 


The  Minutes  of  the  following  day,  Friday,  October  2,  are  headed 
as  follows: 

State  House,  in  the  City  of  Philadelphia, 
Friday,  October,  2,  1789. 
(It  was  at  this  session  that  Bishop  Samuel  Seabury  subscribed  to 
the  Constitution  and  his  Deputies  took  their  seats.) 


The  following  day,  Saturday,  October  3,  the  Convention  again  met 
in  a  joint  session  in  the  State  House  and  thereafter  the  two  Houses 

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(now  being  fully  organized  for  separate  sessions)  met  separately  in 
the  State  House  until  October  10. 

In  the  Minutes  of  Saturday,  October  10th,  in  the  State  House, 
there  is  a  statement — "  It  having  been  notified  that  the  public  service 
of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  would  require  the  use  of  the  State 
House  during  the  present  week.  Adjourned  to  meet  at  Christ 
Church  on  Monday  morning  next." 

This  undoubtedly  meant;  required  the  immediate  use,  so  as  to  get 
ready  the  State  House  for  use  during  the  following  week. 

On  October  12,  the  Convention  met  in  Christ  Church  and  "  it  being 
represented  that  convenient  apartments  might  be  had  in  the  College 
of  Philadelphia  for  the  Meeting  of  both  Houses  of  Convention,  dur- 
ing the  remainder  of  the  present  session. 

"  Adjourned  to  meet  at  the  College  immediately." 

The  formal  opening  of  the  House  was  held  that  morning  in  the 
College  of  Philadelphia  and  all  subsequent  Meetings  were  held  In 
that  building. 

These  excerpts  from  the  Minutes  show  how  the  Church,  the  Na- 
tion and  University  of  Pennsylvania  were  intimately  connected  in 
the  events  of  those  days  when  history  was  made.  Bishop  Seabury 
evidently  declined  to  meet  in  Christ  Church,  hence  the  State  House 
was  selected.  For  an  account  of  his  life,  election  as  Bishop,  consecra- 
tion, toryism,  manner,  and  ehurchmanship  see  "History  of  the 
American  Episcopal  Church,"  by  Rev.  S.  D.  McConnell,  D.C.L. 
(1904) ;  pp.  200,  207,  208,  218,  237,  249,  257,  290,  227,  229,  234, 
255,  260,  262,  289,  319. 


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INSCRIPTIONS  ON  TOMBSTONES  AND  VAULTS 
IN  THE  CHURCH  AND  CHURCHYARD. 

Largely  a  Reprint  from  the  Publications  of  The  Genealogical 
Society  of  Pennsylvania,  Vol.  2,  pp.  303-339. 

Interments  in  the  Church 


Rev^  Joseph  Pilmore  D.D. /Rector  of  this  Church/ 16  years  &  8 
months /Died  July  24^^  1825 /Aged  85  Years 

B 
Rev*  Samuel  Magaw.  D.D. /Rector  of  this  Church/ 23  years/ 
Died  Dec'  l**  1812/ Aged  77  years 

a 

Sacred /To  the  Memory  of  the /Rev.  Benjamin  Allen /Rector  of 
this  Church  7  years  4  months /Who  departed  this  life  on  the  13*^ 
January  1829  /  on  his  passage  from  Liverpool  Eng^  to  Philadelphia  / 
where  he  had  gone  for  the  restoration  of  his  health /Aged  39  years 
3  months  15  days /By  direction  of  the  Vestry. 

D 

Sacred /To  the  Memory  of /John  Ross  Esq""  /  Counsellor  at  Law 
/who  departed  this  Life /May  5^^  1776 /Aged  61  Years /And  of/ 
Elizabeth  his  Wife /who  departed  this  Life /October  7'^  1776/ 
Aged  62  Years  /  And  also  of  /  Catharine  Gumey  /  Daughter  of  the 
above /John  &  Elizabeth  Ross /who  departed  this  Life /August 
27*'^  1782 /Aged  34  Years. 

The  three  inscriptions  (A,  B,  D)  are  on  stones  over  the  graves 
in  what  is  now  the  basement  of  the  Church,  while  those  of  Dr. 
Magaw  and  Dr.  Pilmore,  are  on  what  was  the  floor  of  the  chancel 
before  the  alterations  were  made  in  1829.    The  inscription  on  stone 

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C  is  a  memorial  placed  by  the  Vestry.    Rev.  Benjamin  Allen  was 
buried  at  sea. 

On  the  North  Side  of  the  front  part  of  the  Churchyard  from  the 

East 

1 

In /Memory  of /Mrs.  Mary  Rimer /wife  of /Thomas  Rimer/ 
Who  departed  this  life /June  17^^  1818 /Aged  73  Years /Also  of/ 
M"  Elizabeth  Row /Wife  of /Cap*  Edward  Row /And  Daughter 
of/j^rs  Mary  Rimer /who  departed  this  life /January  20*^^  1819/ 
Aged  48  years 

3 

In /Memory  of /Ann  the  daughter  of /David  &i  Catharine  /  Irv- 
ing/Who departed  this  Life/Ocf  18*1'  x.  D.  1793 /Aged  7  Years 
&  4  months /Also  of  Catharine.  Wife  of /David  Irving /who  de- 
parted this  life /August  19*''  179  /Aged  41  years /And  of  John 
their  Son /who  departed  this  life /Aged  19  Years 

3 

In /Memory  of /Ann  Wife  of /Thomas  Palmers/who  departed 
this  life /December  23^  1811 /Aged  52  years 

4 
In /Memory /of /Samuel  Johnston /who  departed  this  Life /on 
the  19  Septem"'  1793 /Aged  33 

5 

In  Memory  of/Elenor  Cathers/who  departed  /  October  4  1800 
/Aged  7  weeks 

6 

^      Hannah  Olyphant  /  Died  the  4*^'  Febr'y  1782  /  Aged  59  Years 
On  the   West  Front  of  the  Churchyard  from   the  North 


1  Thomas  Palmer,  "gunsmith,"  by  will  dated  Nov.  7,  1811,  proved 
Mar.  9,  1812,  made  bequests  to  wife  Ann,  who  as  above,  pre-deceased 
Mm;  to  brother  Jonathan,  and  children  Asher,  William,  John  and 
Elizabeth  Shaw.  Of  the  latter,  the  United  States  Gazette  of  Aug.  10, 
1798,  records:  "Married  last  evening  by  the  Eev.  Bishop  "White,  Captain 
Shaw  of  Baltimore,  to  the  amiable  Miss  Eliza  Palmer,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Thomas  Palmer,  of  this  City." 

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John  Pechin's /  Family  Vault/ 1826 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows : 
August  6,  1809,  Mr.  Pechin's  Grandchild. 
March  10,  1841,  Mrs.  Pechin. 
November  4,  1860,  John  Pechin. 
July  2,  1891,  Almira  Pechin. 

8 

Tho*  Mitchell's  /  Family  Vault /Here  are  deposited  the  remains 
of /Mary  Cowell  /  of  Trenton  N.  J. /who  departed  this  life /March 
15  1831 /also  of /Mary  Frances  /  daughter  of /Thomas  and  Maria 
M.  Mitchell /who  departed  this  life/ July  29**'  1838 /Aged  30  Years 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows : 
August  24,  1835,  James  Mitchell. 
June  18,  1839,  Thomas  Kittera.^' 
March  25,  1849,  Thomas  Mitchell. 

9 

Beneath  this  Stone /lies  the  Body  of /John  Wood  of  this  City/ 
Clock  &  Watchmaker  /  and  upwards  of  24  Years /a  Warden  of  S* 
Paul's  Church  /  He  departed  this  Life  /  October  the  9'*'  1793  /  Aged 
57  Years /Ann  the  wife  of /Anthony  Van  Mannierck  /  Merchant  / 
Late  M""  J°°  Woods  widow /Bom  the  17**1  ]y[ay  1750 /and  died  the 
Wtii  Feb  1796 /Mrs.  Elizabeth  LedlieV^ho  departed  this  life  Oct. 
29,  1819  /  Aged  75  years 

10 

Here /are  deposited  the  Remains /of  John  Campbell  Merch*/ 
Who  died  in  the  69  year  of  his  age /on  the  14*1^  day  of  Nov'  1795/ 
Firm  in  his  religious  Prof ession  /  Honest  in  his  Principle  /  Diligent 
in  Btisiness  /  Peacable  in  Demeanour  /  He  left  /  To  each  of  his 
/  Acquaintance  /  especially  to  his  fellow  worshippers  /  a  lesson  /  of 
instruction  and  Hope /Also  of /Doctor  John  Campbell  /Son  of 
John  &  Mary  Campbell /who  departed  this  life  Dec.  9,  1804 /Aged 


2  Son  of  Hon.  Thomas  Wilkes  Kittera  by  his  wife  Ann  Moore,  b. 
Lancaster  Co.,  Pa.,  Mar.  21,  1789 ;  d.  Phila.  June  16,  1839.  Dept.  Atty. 
Gen.  Penna.,  1817-18;  Dept.  Atty-Gen.  Phila.,  1824-1826;  M.  C, 
1826-27;  Mem.  Select  Council,  Phila.,  and  its  Pres.,  1824-26;  Bt. 
Worshipful  Grand  Master  Grand  Lodge,  A.  Y.  M. 

3  Elizabeth  Ledlie  was  a  daughter  of  John  Wood,  and  married  William 
Ledlie  January  12,  1775.     (St.  Paul's  Eegister.) 

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25  years  &  8  months  /  Likewise  /  M"  Mary  Campbell  /  wife  of  John 
Campbell  Merch*/who  departed  this  life  Jan  12  1813 /Aged  71 
years 

11 
Here  lie  the  Remains  of  /  John  Keble  /  a  native  of  England  /  who 
departed  this  life  the  29'** / September / in  the  year  of  our  Lord/ 
1807  /  Aged  63  years  and  25  days  /  Let  no  one  move  his  Bones. 

13 

The  Vault /of /Blair  M^'Clenachan  Esq. 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 
Blair  Macclenachan. 
July  12,  1824,  [Robert]  Child  of  Mr.  H.  Toland. 
May  7,  1827,  Mrs.  Mary  Toland. 
October  30,  1831,  John  Smith. 
February  3,  1836,  John  Huston. 
October  5,  1837,  Mary  Macclenachan. 
March  1,  1841,  Ann  Weston. 
January  26,  1863,  Henry  Toland.* 
October  26,  1880,  George  Toland. 
March  7,  1881,  Blair  M.  Toland. 
June  13,  1887,  Mary  H.  Toland. 

On  the  South  Side  of  the  Churchward  from  the  West. 

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Stotesbury 

The  remains  in  this  vault  were  removed  to  Woodland  Cemetery 
May  26, 1884  by  Edward  C.  Stotesbury,  Esq.,  and  are  in  his  lot.    This 


4  Henry  Toland,  Jr.,  of  the  firm  of  Henry  Toland  and  Son,  grocers  at 
14  North  Third  Street,  born  1785,  son  of  Henry  and  Sarah  (Barnhill) 
Toland;  died  as  above;  married  Nov.  27,  1816,  Mary  Huston,  who  died 
May  7,  1827,  daughter  of  John  Hasell  Huston,  and  grand-daughter 
of  Blair  McClenachan;  was  a  promdnent  Philadelphia  merchant,  a 
director  of  the  Bank  of  the  United  States  and  member  of  the  Hibernian 
Society  of  Philadelphia.  Four  of  his  seven  children  are  buried  in  the 
McClenachan  vault;  the  others  died  unmarried  after  reaching  maturity. 
His  brother,  Robert  Toland,  was  a  founder  and  one  of  the  directors  of 
the  Franklin  Fire  Insurance  Company,  a  director  of  the  Farmers  and 
Mechanics  Bank,  the  Pennsylvania  Company  for  Insurance  on  Lives 
and  Granting  Annuities,  the  Girard  National  Bank,  th»  Montreal  As- 
surance Company,  and  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Pennsylvania  Eail- 
road. 

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lot  contains  the  following:  Arthur  Stotesbury,^  Mary  Stotes- 
bury  and  William  Stotesbury,  who,  the  records  show,  were  buried  at 
St.  Paul's;  Thomas  P.  Stotesbury,  bom  April  25,  1843,  died  Janu- 
ary 8,  1888;  Martha  P.  Stotesbury,  bom  October  13,  1823,  died 
May  30,  1889 ;  Helen  L.  Stotesbury,  died  September  9,  1874 ;  Fannie 
Butcher  Stotesbury,  died  November  7,  1881,  aged  31  years;  S. 
Louise  Stotesbury,  born  May  24,  1854,  died  July  4,  1908. 

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John  Leamy's  /  Family  Vault 
Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 
August  23,  1823,  Mrs.  Leamy. 
September  19,  1823,  Ann  Leamy. 
February  2,  1835,  John  Leamy. 
December  5,  1839,  John  Leamy. 
September  5,  1845,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Leamy. 

15 

"William  Cmnmings  /  Family  Vault.^  /  Emily  A.  Cummings/Bom 

January  5.  1805 /Died  September  16.  1847 /Mary  Irvine  Barratt 

/Bom  December  12  1832. /Died  July  14  1869 /Emily  A  Cummings 

/  Bora  Febraary  12  1840  /  Died  November  18  1876  /  Cora  M.  Cum- 

6  Arthur  Stotesbury  was  a  sea  captain  residing  at  No.  401  South 
Front  Street  in  1817,  and  at  No.  59  Almond  Street  in  1843.  He  was 
prominent  in  St.  Paul's  for  many  years  as  were  other  members  of  his 
family.  He  was  a  vestryman  from  1810  to  1821.  Richard  G.  Stotes- 
bury was  also  prominent  and  a  vestryman  from  the  year  1840  to  1876. 
In  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  resided  at  Locust  Street  and  Twentieth 
Street,  Philadelphia. 

6  Mary  Irvine  Cummings  appears  in  the  records  of  St.  Paul 's.  She 
was  baptized,  confirmed,  married  by  Rev.  Dr.  Richard  Newton  and 
buried  there.  She  married  James  Barratt,  Jr.,  on  May  16th,  1855,  and 
attended  services  with  her  husband,  their  pew  being  in  the  middle  aisle 
across  from  her  father's  until  1865,  when  St.  Luke's  Church  being 
nearer  to  her  residence,  No.  1304  Pine  Street,  she  and  her  husband  took 
a  pew  at  St.  Luke 's.  James  Barratt,  Jr.,  represented  the  Seventh  Ward 
in  Common  Council,  Philadelphia,  1862-1865;  January  12,  1865,  com- 
missioner to  distribute  bounties  to  volunteers,  and  distributed  over  twelve 
million  dollars;  May  25,  1865,  Port  Warden;  1867;  Vice-President 
Philadelphia  Corn  Exchange;  Member  Company  D,  First  Regiment; 
First  Lieutenant  emergency  regiment,  called  Corn  Exchange  Guard,  in 
September,  1862;  member  of  Phoenix  Hose  Company;  Lodge  51  F.  and 
A.  M.,  and  the  Union  League,  Philadelphia.  He  is  buried  at  Barratt 's 
Chapel,  Kent  County,  Delaware. 

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mings/Born  December  7.  1836 /Died  May  14  1882  William 
Cummings/Bom  February  6.  1806  Died  December  17.  1889 /Mary 
A.  Cummings/Bom  May  6.  1811 /Died  June  8.  1891.  Rachel  F. 
Alexander  Born  March  17.  1814  Died  Sept  30  1896 

16 
Family  Vault  of  /  Edwin  Forrest 

William  Forrest /Bom  1758  Died  1819 /Rebecca  Forrest /Bom 
1763  Died  1847 /also  the  children  of  William  &  Rebecca  Forrest 
/Lorman  Forrest /Bom  1796  Died  in  S.  America  /  William  For- 
rest/Bom 1800  Died  1834  Henrietta  Forrest /Bom  1798  Died 
1863  /  Caroline  Forrest /Bom  1802  Died  1869/Elenora  Forrest/ 
Bom  1808  Died  1871  /  Edwin  Forrest^  /  Bom  March  9,  1806  Died 
Dec.  12  1872 

17 

Joseph  R.  A.  SkerrettsV  Family  Vault  / 1833  /  Joseph  R.  A. 
Skerrett  /  died  November  27  1839  in  /  the  48  year  of  his  age  /  Eliza- 
beth wife  of  Charles /M  Rivelly/Bom  February  3^  1824  Died/ 
March  1  1855 /Rebecca  S.  Hood /wife  of  Francis  Hood /Bom 
August  1.  A.  D.  1827  Died /April  27  A.  D.  1867 /Her  end  was 
peace,  and  /  assurance  forever 

The  remains  of  Sarah  Morrison  were  interred  in  this  Vault  April 
4,  1876. 

18 
Jacob  Earnests  /  Family  Vault 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 
October  24,  1834,  Mr.  Shinkle's  child. 
January  1,  1841,  George  W.  Earnest. 
Febraary  6,  1845,  Mrs.  Esther  Earnest. 
June  28,  1848,  Elizabeth  Eamest. 
October  26,  1852,  Edward  Duff. 
April  27,  1855,  Julia  R.  Shinkle. 
July  30,  1859,  Eliza  D.  Earnest. 
February  28,  1866,  Sarah  Copper. 
October  3,  1868,  James  Eamest. 
April  20,  1872,  Hester  Earnest. 

19 

J.  Farrs/ Family  Vault 
Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 


7  Edwin  Forrest,  the  great  tragedian. 

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August  20,  1823,  Edward  Farr. 
April  6,  1835,  Miss  E.  MeCoskry. 
April  15,  1835,  Mr.  John  Parr's  child. 
August  20,  1845,  Edward  Farr. 
March  4,  1847,  John  Farr.^ 
March  6,  1865,  Mr.  Moffett. 

29 
George  Feinours  /  Family  Vault  /  Margaret  Feinour/Died  Janu- 
ary 5^^  1833 /Aged  15  years /George  Feinour/Died  May  25  1831 
Aged  45  years /Ann  Feinour/Died  June  2  1835  Aged  18  years 
February  2,  1845,  William  Feinour. 
July  27,  1847,  George  T.  Feinour. 
April,  1855,  Mrs.  Campion. 
May  10,  1864,  Margaret  Campion.  ")  ,       ,  „  •,   t,    ^ 

Catharine  Campion  |da"ghters  of  J.  B.  Campion 

21 
Mark  T.  Jones /Family  Vault. 
Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 
May  11,  1855,  Susannah  Jones. 
December  15,  1856,  Mark  T.  Jones. 
August  22,  1859,  Mrs.  Susannah  Conway. 
October  22,  1862,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  E.  Marple. 

22 
William  Davis /Family  Vault. 
Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 
January  16,  1833,  William  Davis. 
March  14,  1834,  Perry  Davis. 
June  24,  1835,  Mrs.  Davis. 
September  25,  1855,  William  Davis. 
March  30,  1870,  Justinian  F.  Davis. 

8  '  *  The  Pastor 's  Offering  to  his  Flock.  A  funeral  Discourse,  delivered 
in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Philadelphia,  March  7,  1847,  on  the  occasion  of 
the  death  of  John  Farr,  Esq.,  Senior  Warden  of  this  Church.  This 
Memorial  of  one  who  was  known  so  long  and  loved  so  well,  is  affec- 
tionately presented  as  a  Pastor's  offering  to  the  Members  of  St.  Paul's 
Church  by  their  servant  for  Jesus '  sake,  the  Author. ' '  Richard  Newton 
(Philadelphia,  1847).  Mr.  Farr  was  a  teacher  in  St.  Paul's  Sunday 
Schools  thirty  years.  Eight  of  his  children  were  communicants  and  in 
1860,  three  were  teachers  in  the  Sunday  School,  as  their  father  had  been. 

222 


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23 

No  2 /Mary  Marshall /  and / Elizabeth  Walker's / Family  Vault/ 
Here  lies  the  remains  of /Amor  Marshall /who  died  August  1«* 
1816  /  and  his  Daughter  /  Frances  Matilda,  who  died  /  NoV  28  1831 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 
April  5,  1853,  Mrs.  Mary  Marshall. 
March  7,  1859,  Ann  Elizabeth  Marshall. 
May,  1859,  Joseph  Y.  Marshall. 

24 
No.  3 /Samuel  N.  Davies / Family  Vault. 
Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 
April  25,  1855,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Davies. 
July  25,  1855,  Samuel  N.  Davies. 
January  22,  1863,  Herbert  S.  Davies. 
February  10,  1863,  Samuel  N.  Davies. 
June  27,  1868,  Elizabeth  B.  Davies. 
October  21,  1870,  Charles  Edward  Davies. 

25 

Receiving  Vault. 

26 

R.  F.  Lopers  /  Family  Vault. 
Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 
November  9,  1880,  Richard  Fanning  Loper. 
William  F.  Loper. 
Emily  Weaver  Loper. 
Josephine  Kirkpatrick  Loper. 
September  16,  1868,  Elizabeth  Spooner  McMurtrie. 
June  3,  1869,  Mrs.  Josephine  Spooner  Kirkpatrick. 
January  29,  1866,  Catherine  Mercer  Baird  Spooner.** 
[  William  Kirkpatrick. 

\   August  24,  1864,  Marie  L.  Loper. 

27 

In /memory  of /Ann  A.   Rose /wife   of  David  Rose /who  de- 
parted this  life /on  the  2*  day  of  November  1794 /Aged  35  years 

8a  Alvin  Mercer  Parker  and  Joseph  Brooks  Bloodgood  Parker,  members 
of  the  Colonial  Society,  are  great  grandsons. 

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/also  Mary  their  daughter /who  departed  this  life /on  the  27'ii  day 
of  August  1790 /in  the  37'^'^  year  of  her  age /also  Rebecca  their 
daughter /who  departed  this  life /on  the  8*^^  day  of  September 
1790 /Aged  10  months /also  Samuel  their  son /who  departed  this 
life /on  the  22"^  day  of  June  1794 /in  the  9^*^  year  of  his  age /also 
Thomas  their  son /who  departed  this  life /on  the  lO'^'^  day  of  Sep- 
tember 1798 /Aged  3  years /also  Ann  S.  Rose  wife  of /David 
Rose  /  who  departed  this  life  /  on  the  13'^  day  of  September  1833  / 
in  the  67''*  year  of  her  age /and  in  memory  of /David  Rose /Who 
departed  this  life  /  the  17'i*  day  of  April  1837 

28 

Sacred /To  the  Memory  /  of  /  David  Rose /who  died  Aug  3''^ 
1798 /Aged  68  years  /  Also  /  Abigail  his  wife /who  died  Septem- 
ber 19*^  1809 /Aged  79  years /The  righteous  shall  be  had  in  ever- 
lasting remembrance. 

29 

In /Memory  of /Samuel  Rose /who  departed  this  life /March 
le'**  A.  D.  1786. /Aged  20  years 

30 
In  Memory  of /Sarah  Dilworth  /  Who  departed  this  Life /Nov*" 
the  13*"  1790 /Aged  56  years 

31 

Sacred /to  the  Memory  of /Mary  A,  Snyder /who  died  March 
24"*  1832 /Aged  67  years /The  righteous  shall  be  had  in  everlast- 
ing/remembrance Ps  112.  V,  6. /Their  works  of  Piety  and  love/ 
Remain  before  the  Lord /Honour  on  earth  and  joy  above /Shall  be 
their  sure  reward /Also  her  mother /Ann  Cromwell /who  died  in 
March  1818 /Aged  75  years / Blessed  are  the  dead  which  die  in  the 
Lord  that  they  may  rest  from  their  labours  &  their  works  do  follow 
them.  Rev  11  v.  5.  /  Also  Mary  Ann  daughter  of  /  George  &  Mary 
A  Guerin  who  died  /  Ocf^  21^'  1788.  Aged  2  years  &  2  mos 

32 

Here /lies  the  body  of/ Susannah  DeBray  bom  Auber/Wife  of 
Daniel  DeBray  /  Member  of  the  Worshipful  Russia  Company.  In- 
corporated in  London  /  She  departed  this  Life  after  long  suf  /  f ering 
Patience  and  meek  Resignation  /  the  M***  of  March  1786  Aged  34 
Years  /  Also  /  To  the  Memory  of  James  Auber/her  brother  Mid- 
224 


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shipman  who  depart  /  ed  this  Life  on  board  his  Britannick  /  Majes- 
ty's Ship  Isis  in  the  Mozambique  /  Channel  next  Madagascar  on  the 
23'-d/of  August  1781 /Aged  19  years 

33 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /John  Matthews /who  departed  this 
life /the  23'-'i  November  1833 /in  the  76'"^  year  of  his  age /Mary 
Matthews /his  Widow  /  departed  this  life /October  2'^'*  1817/ 
Matthew  Matthews  /  their  eldest  son /departed  this  life /August  1^* 

1819. 

34 

In /Memory  of  Sarali/wife  of /James  Ellis /who  departed  this 

life/Feby  25  1816 /in  the  SOti^  year  of  her  age 

35 

George  Glentworth  M.  D./ Departed  this  Life  November  l^V 
1792  /  Aged  57  years 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows: 
June  27,  1813,  George  Glentworth. 
November  2,  1815,  Margaret  Glentworth. 
June  19,  1818,  Mrs.  Mackey. 
September  11,  1823,  A  Glentworth. 
March  15,  1826,  Walter  Glentworth. 
March  2,  1831,  Mrs.  George  Glentworth. 
January  19,  1833,  Plunket  Fleeson  Glentworth,  M.D. 
August  5,  1836,  Mr.  Glentworth's  child. 
February  2,  1848,  George  P.  Glentworth. 
October  24,  1834,  Mrs.  Harriet  Glentworth. 
September  14,  1845,  Alfred  Glentworth. 
July  30,  1856,  Hannah  L.  Glentworth. 
February  16,  1858,  Edward  H.  Glentworth,  M.D. 

1860,  Mrs.  Glentworth. 
November  5,  1863,  John  L.  Glentworth. 
December  26,  1864,  Harvey  Glentworth. 
August  20,  1866,  George  Glentworth. 
July  13,  1867,  Theodore  Glentworth. 

36 
Rowley's /Family  Vault /Edward  Rowley /Died  the  27^1'  of  Jan- 
uary A.  D.  1820 /in  the  63^  year  of  his  age /Anthony  Myers  Died 
Dec'  27*^^  1828 /Aged  44  Years / Richard  Rowley  son  of  Edward/ 
i6  225 


and  Ann  Rowley  died  /  Nov.  /  9'^^  1836  /  in  the  IQ^i'  year  of  his  age  / 
Horatio  G.  Rowley / departed  this  life  April  18.  1810 /in  the  18 
year  of  his  age /Ann  wife  of /Edward  Rowley /who  departed  this 
Life /Sept  231  1803 /in  the  48  year  of  her  age /also  3  of  their 
children / Richard  died  May  28^^  1787 /Aged  16  months / Ellen 
Ann  died  Jan^  18*1*  1797 /Aged  2  months/ John  died  Oet°  —1799/ 
in  the  17'*^  year  of  his  age  /  Edw"*  Rowley  Jun*"  died  August  8^^  1815 
/in  the  21^*  year  of  his  age /Anthony  Myers  son  of /Anthony  & 
Isabella  Rowley  Myers /Bom  Jan  —  1815  Died  27  Feb  1817/ 
Isabella  Rowley  Myers /Relict  of  Anthony  Myers /Born  May  4*'' 
1790/DiedAugt  6th  1848 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows : 
July  16,  1832,  Mr.  Rowley's  child. 
August  26,  1862,  Mr.  Millett. 
February  17,  1871,  Marian  Alexandra  Livingston. 

37 

In  Memory  of  /  Ann  wife  of  /  Christian  Wiltberger  /  who  de- 
parted this  life /May  12*1^  1813 /Aged  42  years  6  months  &  20 
days /also  of  /  Hetty  /  Second  Wife  of  Christian  Wiltberger  /  who 
died  Oct  7^^  1851 /Aged  79  years  &  3  months /also  of /Christian 
Wiltberger / who  died  Oct.  16*'*  1851 /Aged  81  years  11  months  & 
6  days 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows : 

September  24,  1819.  Mountford  (G'ehild  of  C.  W.). 

April  6,  1824,  Christian  Wiltberger. 

May  1,  1828,  Edward  Wiltberger. 

April  13,  1830,  Child  of  William  M.  Evans. 

May  21,  1830,  George  Wiltberger. 

May  29,  1831,  Elizabeth  C.  Evans. 

December  26,  1834,  Mr.  Evans'  child. 

March  2,  1843,  Mr.  Wiltberger's  child. 

August  16,  1855,  Rev.  Christian  Wiltberger. 

December  29,  1858,  Mrs.  Maria  S.  Wiltberger.  < 

38 
In  this  Vault  rest  the  remains  of /Peter  Miercken  Potter /son  of 
Rich*  Si  Catharine  Potter /who  departed  this  life /the  31^*  ]V[ay 
1816  Aged  22  years  /  also  /  Richard  Cheslyn  Potter  /  Father  of  the 
above  born  September  27**^  1759 /died  September  29^^^  1828  Aged 
69  years  &  2  days / also / Catharine  Miercken/   widow  of  Rich*  C. 

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Potter /died  in  Alabama  August  1831 /in  the  61^^  year  of  her  age 
/and  reinterred  /  beneath  this  slab  inV  February  1853 /"Let  her 
memory  be  blessed  " 

39 
In  this  Vault  /  lie  the  remains  of  Sarah  S  North  wife  of  /  Stephen 
North  &  daughter  of  the  late  /  John  Bartram  M.  D.  who  died  Dec'' 
11.  1813  /  in  the  27  year  of  her  age  &  their  son  /  Richard  who  died 
July  17  1810  in  his  7*'^  year  /  also  Alfred  Augustus  son  of  /  Stephen 
&  Mary  North /who  died  Dec  ll**^  1821 /Stephen  North  who  de- 
parted this  life  /  Sept.  1^  1826  in  the  U'^  year  of  his  age. 

Williams 

Mary  North/  of  his  age/Lydia, 

daughter  of  John  Bartram  &  Phoebe  North/ 

Aug'  18.  1833.  /  Aged  7  weeks.  /  Also  their  son  /  James  Bar- 
tram /  who  died  Feb.  4.  1835  /  Aged  6  months  /  In  the  City  of  Wash- 
ington/On the  3^  of  October  1851 /Phoebe  H.  Wife  of  J.  Bartram 
North  /  Aged  40  Years  / 

Beneath  this  stone  /  are  deposited  the  remains  of  /  Richard  son  of 
Richard  &  Mary  North /who  died  Feb^  21^'  lygg  Aged  8  weeks/ 
and  Mary  Ann  daughter  of /Richard  &  Mary  North /who  died 
March  29'^  1797  /  in  the  4^'^  year  of  her  age  /  also  /  Catharine  Jor- 
dan/who died  July  24*'^  1802 /Aged  48  years /Mary  wife  of 
Richard  North / departed  this  life  DeC  12  1827 /in  the  78ti>  year 
of  her  age /Richard  North  /  departed  this  life  June  6^^  1837 /in 
the  83'"^  year  of  his  age /Phoebe  Emma  North /Died  at  Washing- 
ton City  April  21  1844  /  in  the  5^^  year  of  her  age 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows : 
October  8,  1827,  William  North. 
May  4,  1839,  Dr.  Green's  child. 
June  25,  1854,  William  North. 

40 
Here  lie  inteiTed  /  Ann  Simpson  bom  19  October  1787  /  died  30'^ 
July  1789  /  William  Simpson  born  8*'^  Jan^  1796  /  died  17  July  1797 
/Eleanor  Simpson  bom  3^  Ocf  1798 /died  11'^  August  1799/ 
Samuel  Simpson  bom  17  March  1785 /died  2°*  December  1806/ 
Day  Simpson  bom  2°^  May  1794  /  died  5^11  September  1808  /  George 
Simpson  born  23"-'^  August  1786 /died  8'^  January  1818 /  Gustavus 
Simpson   born  8^^   Febmary  1792 /died  11'^   April  1822 /George 

©Catharine    Miercken    Potter    interred    February    8,    1853     [Church 
Eegisters]. 

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Simpson  for  many  years  Cashier /of  the  first  Bank  United  States/ 
Born  12th  December  1759 /Died  30^^  November  1822 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows : 
April  6,  1818,  Mrs.  Esther  Hughes. 
May  11,  1825,  Stephen  Day  Simpson. 
December  1,  1836,  Mrs.  Simpson. 
March  19,  1841,  Eleanor  Day  Simpson. 
June  28,  1849,  George  Simpson. 
August  19,  1854,  Stephen  Simpson. 
March  26,  1856,  Mrs.  Stephen  Simpson. 
March  25,  1868,"  Henry  Simpson. 
September  13,  1869,  Julianna  Simpson. 
April  22,  1873,  Emeline  Simpson. 

41 

C[omelius]  Stevenson's  Family  Vault  /  William  Stevenson  Sen^ 
/Died  May  16*^  A.  D.  1817  aged  69  years  and  3  months /Ann 
Stevenson  his  Wife /Died  January  3'"'^  A.  D.  1805  aged  45  years 
and  5  months /Also  their  Children  /  Robert  died  April  17**^  1818 
aged  36  years  &  5  mos/ William  died  August  27^^  1813  aged  26 
years  &  7  mos /Peter  died  September  9'^^  1795  aged  6  years  &  2 
mos /Ann,  Wife  of  Thomas  Lake  Bom  May  31,  1784 /Died  Jan'y 

10  Compiler  of  "The  Lives  of  Eminent  Philadelphians  now  Deceased." 

11  William  Stevenson,  born  February  17,  1748;  married  Ann,  daughter 
tof  Lucas  Dokoe  Groebe,  of  St.  Eustache,  Surinam,  by  his  wife,  Aletta 
Heylinger,  and  arrived  in  Philadelphia  May  13,  1784.  Their  son,  Cor- 
nelius Stevenson,  born  on  the  Demarara  Eiver,  British  Guiana,  February 
20,  1779;  died  at  Philadelphia,  April  24,  1860;  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  Adam  and  Catharine  (Diehl)  May,  born  December  14,  1786;  died 
Philadelphia,  January  29,  1860;  Member  of  the  Carpenters  Company  in 
1809,  was  Major  of  First  Eegiment,  Penna.  Volunteer  Artillery  in 
War  of  1812;  like  his  father  many  years  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's;  City 
Treasurer  in  1831;  member  of  State  in  Schuylkill  of  which  his  son 
William  Stevenson  was  Governor;  manager  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Sunday  School  Society  of  Philadelphia  in  1831.  He  became  a  member 
of  Montgomery  Lodge  F.  &  A.  M.,  April  5,  1810;  charter  member  of 
Industry  Lodge,  No.  31,  June  22,  1811,  of  which  he  was  Junior  Warden, 
Senior  Warden  and  Master  in  1812;  Member  of  Philadelphia  Lodge 
No.  72,  February  9,  1832;  Grand  Treasurer,  1832,  and  Grand  Master  of 
Pennsylvania,  1843;  City  Treasurer  of  Philadelphia,  1830-1850;  one  of 
the  founders  and  Senior  Warden  of  St.  Andrew's  Church.  His  great 
grandson,  Stevenson  Hockley  Walsh,  Esq.,  is  a  councillor  of  the  Colonial 
Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

228 


1779-CORNELIUS    STEVENSON-1860 


:tn0ctiption0  on  Tlomb^tone^  anb  i^avilt^ 

2,    1873 / Margaretta    Daughter   of   William    Stevenson    Sr. /Bom 
July  1.  1796.  Died  December  3,  1876. 

Interments  in  this  vault  were  as  follows : 
November  22,  1820,  Ann  Stevenson. 
August  8,  1823,  Eloise  Salaignac. 
June  2,  1825,  Caroline  Lake. 

The  following  inscriptions  are  in  the  rear  of  the  church  beginning 
from  the  North. 

A-1 

This  stone /was  Erected  by /Elizabeth  Manning  /  consort  of  R. 
H.  Manning /of  the  County  of  Wicklow  /  Ireland  /  [son  of]/ 
Robert  H.  Manning /who  departed  this  life /March  11^^  1830/ 
Aged  41  Years /Also  his  children  /  Grizelda  died  Aug  12  1827/ 
Aged  1  year  8  months  &  24  days  /  Robinina  Hayes  January  1827  / 
aged  2  years  /  Robert  Hayes  August  1827  /  [aged]  8  months 

12  days 

A-2 

In  /  Memory  /  of  /  William  H.  Hayward/Who  departed  this  life 
/May  18*1^  1825 /Aged  27  years 

Mourn   not    for   me    Eliza   dear 
I  am  not  dead  but  sleeping  here 
And  as  I  am  so  must  you  be 
Prepare  yourself  to  follow  me 

A-3 

In /Memory  of /Matthew  Spillard/who  departed  this  life/ 
March  llt'^  1804 /Aged  49  Years  /  also  /  of  Mary  wife  of /Mat- 
thew Spillard/who  departed  this  life /April  4*1*  1801  Aged  53 
Years 

A-4 

In  Memory  of /James  Alexander  &  Mary  Ann /The  Twin  Chil- 
dren of /Mat.  &  Mary  Spillard/who  died  July  the  lO^i^  1789/ 
Aged   10   Weeks. / Beneath   this   sod  harmless   Babes   repose/ 

releas'd  /  /  /Also  Maria 

Spillard/who  died  June  20**'  1791 /aged  6  months /and  Elizabeth 
who  died /Aug*  9^^  1791  Aged  4  Years 

A-5 

In  /  memory  /  of  /  John  Sperry/who  departed  this  life /Decem- 
ber llti'  1822  /  aged  17  Years. 

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^i0totil  ot  &t  paurjEi  episcopal  C|^utc|^ 

A-6,  Altar  Tomb 
Beneath  this  stone  are  buried /the  remains  of  Andrew  Brown 
late  of /the  city  of  Philadelphia  Printer /Aged  52  years /and 
Elizabeth  his  Wife  aged  years  /  and  of  Mary.  George  &  Elizabeth, 
their  children /A  fire  which  broke  out  in  their  /  dwelling  house  on 
the  27*1^  of  Jan^  1797 / destroyed  them  all,  the  mother  and  the/ 
children  perished  in  the  flames,  the  father  languished  a  few  days 
and  followed  after 

A-7 
Here  lie  the  remains  of  Parry  Hall /Obit.   October  30   1793/ 
aged  38  years 

His  faith  and  patience  love  and  zeal 

Do  make  his  memory  dear 
And  Lord  do  thou  the  prayers  fulfil 
He  offered  for  us  here 

also/M"  Mary  HalP^  wife  of  the  Eev^  Rich^  D,  Hall /Nat  May 
7.  1786.  ob.  Feb.  5.  1817 / Also / Parry  Pilmore  Hall  their  son/ 
nat  Oct  17.  1816.  ob.  Dec  27  1821 /Rev  Richard  Drayson  Hall/ 
Bom  1  May  1789    Died  28  July  1873. 

AS 
In  memory  of /Margaret  James  bom  Feb^  22"*  1793  /  departed 
this  life  July  15*1*  1794 /Mary  McGlathery  bom  Nov  13.  1797 /de- 
parted this  life  Oct  24  1798 /Richard  bom  Feb  26.  1796 /lost  at 
sea  Sept  12  1816 /Thomas  bora  July  27.  1799 / departed  this  life 
Sept  12.  1820 /James  bom  Aug  28  1794 / departed  this  life  March 
31.  1828  /  Ferguson  bom  Sept  16  1801  /  departed  this  life  July  24 
1834 /Children  of  Richard  &  Mary  Robinett / Also / Mary  wife  of 
/  Richard  Robinett  bom  Sept  2  1770  /  departed  this  life  July  4  1834 
/Richard  Robinett  /  departed  this  life /on  the  1^^  of  July  A.  D. 
1835 /in  the  64^^  year  of  his  age /Robert  W.  C.  Robinett /son  of 
Richard  Robinett / died  April  8^^  1836 /in  the  30ti»  year  of  his  age 

A-9,  Altar  Tomb 

Beneath /this   stone   are   Entombed   the   Remains  /  of  /  Elizabeth 

Ryerson  /  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Ryerson/who  died  the 

6^^  day  of  March  A.  D.  1818 /In  the  18ti»  year  of  her  age /the 

flower  f adeth  for  the  wind  passeth  /  over  it  and  it  is  gone  /  Also  /  of 


izEichard  Drayson  Hall  m.  Mary  Douglass,  April  5,  1818.    St.  Paul's 
Registers. 

230 


1765-NORRIS    STANLEY-1851 


FROM    FRENCH    MINIATURE    IN    POSSESSION    OF 
NORRIS    S.     BARRATT. 


Infittivtion^  on  7lomb0tont0  anti  f^ault^ 

/Thomas  Ryerson/who  died  the  2°'^  day  of  Oct"''  A.  D.  1835 /In 
the  82°'*  year  of  his  age /Also  of /Mary  Ryerson/wife  of  Thomas 
Ryerson/who  died  the  23'-'i  day  of  Dec"-  A.  D.  1846 /in  the  TS'J* 
year  of  her  age 

A-10,  Altar  Tomb 
The  Memory  of  the  just  is  blessed  Psa  X  7  /  Sarah,  the  daugh- 
ter of /Joseph  &  Elizabeth  Turner  /  departed  this  life  May  21^* 
1798  Aged  19  years /And  Elizabeth  the  wife  of /the  Rev  Joseph 
Turner/ June  17ti»  i818  Aged  73  years /The  righteous  shall  be  had 
in  everlasting / remembrance  Psal  exii,  6. /Also  to  the  Memory  of 
/Joseph  M.  Turner  who  died  at  Alabama /on  the  5^^  of  September 
1818 /in  the  31^*  year  of  his  age /Also  to  the  memory  of  the /Rev 
Joseph  Turner  a  Native  of  Devonshire  England  /  some  time  Rector 
of  S'  Martins  Marcus  Hook  and  Assistant  /  to  the  Rector  of  the 
Sweedish  Churches  in  the  State  /  on  the  26'^  day  of  July  A.  D.  1821 
/he  ceased  from  his  labours  and  entered  into  rest /in  the  79'^  year 
of  his  age /They  that  turn  many  to  righteousness  /  shall  shine  as 
the  stars  for /ever  and  ever  Dan  xii.  3 /also  to  the  memory  of 
Eliza  daughter  of /Joseph  &  Elizabeth  Turner /Bom  February  IS*** 
1775  /  Died  March  3''^  1868  /  Also  to  the  Memory  of  Esther  daugh- 
ter of /Joseph  &  Elizabeth  Turner /Bom  Nov  18^^  1781 /Died 
March  13'^  1868 

A-11,  Altar  Tomb 
Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Mary /Wife  of  Norris  Stanley /who 
departed  this  life  /  on  the  26*^^  of  November  1823  /  in  the  48^^  year 
of  her  Age  /  also  /  in  memory  of  /  Rolanda  S.  Swain  /  who  died  in' 
the  Havana /on  the  6*"  of  May  1824 /in  the  22^  year  of  his  Age/ 
And /to  the  memory  of/Norris^^  Stanley /Bom  November  10*^ 
1765 /Died  May  8^^  1851 /in  the  86ti»  year  of  his  age /Blessed  are 
the  dead  who  die  in  the  Lord 


13  Norris  Stanley  was  in  early  life  a  master  mariner  and  commanded 
ships  sailing  to  foreign  ports.  Later  he  became  a  ship  owner  and  mer- 
chant, and  an  associate  of  Stephen  Girard,  William  Cummings,  Com- 
modores Bainbridge  and  Barry,  Mayor  Wharton  and  Captain  Thomas 
Hayes  of  John  Moss's  ship  "Tontine"  and  many  other  well-known 
Philadelphians.  In  1810  he  was  an  Inspector  of  the  Philadelphia  County 
Prisons.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  Masonry,  was  Warden  of  Lodge 
No.  2,  in  1809,  and  Senior  Master  of  Ceremonies  in  1816.  During  his 
lifetime  he  gave  his  wealth  to  the  poor  and  distressed,  especially  Masons, 
and  by  his  will,  of  which  WUliam  Cummings  and  Horace  Binney,  Jr., 
were  executors,  he  remembered  in  a  substantial  way  many  of  the 
charities  of  St.  Paul 's,  of  which  he  was  sometime  a  vestryman,  q.  v. 

231 


A-12 
In  memory  of /M""^  Margaret  Leech/  (relict  of  Capf^  Tho^  Leech) 
/who  died  DeC  ISt'^  A.  D.  1822  aged  80. / years / Endued  with  an 
excellent  understanding — was  /  Generous,  Benevolent  &  Charitable; 
In  all  the /Domestic  &  Social  relations,  as  a  Wife.  Mother /Friend 
&  Neighbor.  Her  conduct  was  exempla/ry;  with  Fortitude  & 
Pious  resignation  she  bore /many  &  Severe  afflictions;  Her  rela- 
tives humbly  /  trust,  she  now  stands  near  the  Throne  of  God,  / 
among  those  who  came  out  of  great  tribulation,  /  &  have  washed 
their  robes  &  made  them  white /in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb /Also  of 
/  Charlotte  Leech  daughter  of  /  Tho^  &  Margaret  Leech  /  who  died 
May  31  A.  D.  1792  aged  /  20  years 

Youth,  Innocence  &  Beauty  join'd 

With  Elegance  &  Taste  refined 

Lo!   Here  in  humble  ruin  lies 

Till  the  last  Trumpets  voice  shall  make 

Heaven  Earth  &  Hells  foundation  shake 

Then  in  Immortal  Beauty  rise. 

A-13 

In /memory  of /Miss  Mary  Ann  C.  A.  Allen /the  second  daugh- 
ter of  the /Rev  Benjamin  Allen  /  formerly  Rector /of  this  Church/ 
She  died  Oef  30^1^  1841 /in  the  21^^  year  of  her  age /Mary  hath 
chosen  that /good  part  which  shall  not /be  taken  away  from  her/ 
42  v/Also  in  memory  of  the /Third  Brother  of  Mary /Benjamin 
Allen  /  He  died  Jan^  31^*  1852  /  in  the  30^^^  year  of  bis  age 

A-14 
In  memory  of /Emmanuel  Josiah/who  departed  this  Life/ June 
4th  1779 /Aged  84  Years / also / Ann  his  wife / Departed  this  life 
/May  28**'  1767 /Aged  47  Years 

A-15 
A  stone   with   no   inscription. 

A-16,  Altar  Tomb 
Sacred /to    the   memory   of /Richard   Renshaw/who    died /No- 
vember 27"»  1835 /Aged  63  years / also / Mary  Erwin  his  Widow 
/who  died  /  September  25^11  1838/ Aged  58  years /Also  their  daugh- 
ter/Alice   Johnston   Neill/who    died /July   29*1^   1856 /Aged    37 

232 


In0ctiption&  on  ^omb^tone^  anti  Pault^ 

years / also / Richard  Renshaw/who  died  July  5^^  1865 /Aged  56 
years 

A-17 
Here  lie /The  Bodies   of /Richard   Renshaw/who   died   Oct   20 
1806  /  Aged  1  month  &  9  days  /  and  /  Mary  J.  Renshaw  /  who  died 
Feb  11.  1807  Aged  /  4  years  4  months  &  9  days  /  children  of  /  Rich- 
ard &  Mary  E.  Renshaw 

A-18,  Altar  Tomb 
Sacred  to  the  Memory  of /Richard  Renshaw/who  died  the  IS''' 
of  March  1799 /Aged  89  years / Also / His  children / Charles  who 
died  the  lO'**  of  Dec/ 1775  Aged  5  months /and  William  who  died 
the  9ti»  of  Sept/ 1782  Aged  2  months  &  20  Days / also / His  Grand- 
children/Mary Ann  R«nshaw/who  died  the  21^*  of  Aug  1798./ 
Aged  3  years  and  9  days /and  Edward  Renshaw  Thomson /who 
died  the  IS'^i  of  May  1799  /  Aged  1  year  and  9  months  /  also  /  Ann 
his  Wife /who  died  the  21«t  of  August  1822 /aged  75  Years  3 
months  and  24  Days 

Believe  in  Christ,  his  sacred  Laws  obey 
And  Live  in  Hope  of  an  Eternal  Day. 

A-19 

E  E[?]   Thomson  /  In  /  Memory  of /Ann  R  Thomson  /  daughter 
of  /  /  who  died  /  July        1805  [  ?]  /  Aged        years 

B-1 

In  Memory  of /John  the  Son  of /John  &  Sarah  Johnston /who 
died  Feby  2^  1788  /  Aged  12  Weeks 

B-2 

In /memory   of /Eleanor   daughter   of /John   and    Sarah    John- 
ston/who departed  this  life /May  lO*''  1805 /aged  22  years 

B-3 

In /Memory  of /Catharine  Daughter  of /John  &  Sarah  Johnston 
/  who  departed  this  life  /  May  4^''  1801  /  Aged  16  years 

Go  fair  example  of  untainted  youth 
Of  modest  wisdom  and  pacific  truth 
Great  without  pride  humble  yet  not  mean 
Quiet  in  affliction  and  in  death  serene. 
233 


a 

In /memory  of /Robert  C.  Seaborn /who  departed  this  life/ 
March  IV^  180  /Aged  43  years /also  of  /  Elizabeth.  Wife  of/ 
Peter  Freburger  /  and  daughter  of /Rob*  C.  Seaborn /who  de- 
parted this  life/Novf  22°^  1825 /in  the  26t>>  year  of  her  age /also 
EUzabeth  Wife /of  Robert  C.  Seaborn /Who  died  Sepf  6^^  1830/ 
in  the  85*^^  year  of  her  age 

B-5 

In /Memory  of /John  Moffet/who  departed  this  Life /Novem- 
ber/in  the  Year  of  our  Lord/ 1798 /in  the  Sixty  year /of  his 
age /Also  of /Rachel  Moffet/who  was  bom  April  m^  1802 /and 
died  June  the  25ti»  1803 

B-6 

In /Memory  of /Sarah  Moffet/who  departed  this  Life /June 
the  27'»>  1802 /in  the  67*"^  year  of  her  age /Also  of/ John  Martin 
Moffet/was  bom  October  the  26*^  1808 /and  departed  this  life/ 
May  the  8''»  1809  /  aged  6  months  and  18  days 

B-7 

In  Memory/ of /M"  Sarah  Currie/Wife  of/Docf  William 
Currie  /  &  Daughter  of  /  John  Morton  Esq.  /  who  departed  this  Life 
/  Ocf  25*'^  A.  D.  1794.  Though  here  in  dust  her  Relicks  lie  /  Her 
Spirit  shall  flourish  in  immortal  life.^* 

B-8 

A  flat  stone  with  no  inscription. 

B-9 

A  flat  stone,  showing  marks  for  pedestals  for  an  altar  tomb.  The 
Church  Records  indicate  this  spot  as  the  burial  place  of  Peter  le 
Barbier  du  Plessis.^** 


14  Doctor  Currie,  a  well-known  and  highly  esteemed  physician,  who 
rendered  most  efficient  service  during  an  epidemic  of  yellow  fever,  was 
the  eldest  son  of  Eev.  Dr.  William  Currie,  Missionary  of  the  Eadnor 
Parish,  which  included  Old  St.  David's,  Radnor,  St.  Peter's,  Great 
Valley,  and  St.  James,  Perkiomen.  William  Currie  Wilson,  Esq.,  a 
member  of  this  family  and  Assistant  City  Solicitor  of  Philadelphia,  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  C.  Howard 
Colket,  Esq.,  Registrar  of  the  Colonial  Society,  is  likewise  a  descendant 
of  the  Rev.  William  Currie,  D.D. 

na  Peter  le  Barbier  Du  Plessis  was  a  conveyancer,  scrivener,  notary 
public,   and   sworn   interpreter   of   foreign  languages,   and  in   1791   he 

234 


in0ctipUon0  on  Tlomb^tontfi  anti  mult^ 

B-IO 

To  the  Memory  of  /  William  Macpherson  /  formerly  Brigadier 
General  in  the  /  service  of  the  United  States  /who  departed  this  life 
/  November  5.  1813  Aged  58  years 

I  am  the  Eessurection  and  the  Life  saith  the  Lord 
He  that  believeth  in  me  though  he  were  dead  yet 
Shall  he  live,  and  whosoever  liveth  and  believeth 
on  me  shall  never  die. 

B-U 

Caused  to  be  Erected  by  the  Widow /Cap*  John  Macpherson  /  to 
whose  Memory  and  /  that  of  their  Daughter  /  Eliza  Gates  this  Tomb 
/John  Macpherson /a  Native  of  Scotland  /  born  in /the  City  of 
Edinburgh  /  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  1726  /  departed  this  life 

Sep'"  6*^^  1792 /aged  66  years  Eliza  Gates  Mac- 

pherson/Bom    August   21^'    1782 /Died    Sep""  1787 /Aged   5 

Years  &  1  Month. 

B-12 

Sacred  /  to  the  memory  of  /  Richard  Alexander  /  Bom  1780  Died 
1823 /Ann  C.  Alexander / Born  1779    Died  1858 

B-13 

In /Memory  of /Richard  C  Alexander  /  Son  of /Richard  &  Ann 
Alexander /Born    Febmary    22"*    1809 /Died    March    U^^    1809/ 


resided  at  No.  86  Chestnut  Street,  which  is  the  site  of  the  present  Jayne 
Building  on  the  south  side,  below  Third  Street.  He  was  a  native  of 
France,  and  came  to  Philadelphia  after  the  American  Eevolution.  He 
took  quite  an  interest  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  and  also  in  Freemasonry 
from  1790  vmtil  his  death  in  1815.  In  the  latter  he  was  Grand  Secretary 
from  1790  to  1794,  and  Deputy  Grand  Master  from  1808  to  1813.  He 
was  admitted  to  Montgomery  Lodge,  No,  19,  of  Philadelphia,  on  Jan- 
uary 13,  1787,  and  was  Worshipful  Master  in  June,  1790.  He  joined 
Harmony  Lodge,  No.  52,  December  28,  1791,  from  which  he  withdrew  on 
Jime  9,  1792,  and  became  Warrant  Master  of  a  new  French  Lodge  in 
Philadelphia,  St.  Louis,  No.  53,  formed  by  French  Emigr&s.  On  June  7, 
1806,  he  became  a  member  of  Columbia  Lodge,  No.  91,  of  which  he  re- 
mained a  member  untU  his  death  on  November  8,  1815.  In  his  wUl  he 
mentioned  a  son  George,  daughter  Helena  and  daughter  Sophia,  wife  of 
John  DuBarry,  his  son-in-law,  from  whose  house,  No.  11  North  8th 
Street,  he  was  buried  in  St.  Paul 's  Churchyard  with  Masonic  ceremonies. 

235 


Christiana /Alexander /Bom  1866  Died  1859 /Richard  J.  Alexan- 
der /  Bom  1846.    Died  1878 

B-14 
In  memory  of /Edward  Young /Who  Died  /  November  20  1787/ 
Aged  33  Years 

B-15 
JOHN"  B.  YOUNG /son  of /Charles  and  Laetitia  /  died  Sepf  28. 
1784 /Aged  20  Months. 

B-16 
In  Memory  of  /  M"  Ann  Young.  Wife  of  /  Charles  Young  of  this 
City /She  died  November  7^1^  1776 /Aged  27  Years /An  affectionate 
Wife /A  tender  Parent  and /sincere  Friend 

B-17 
Here  Lie  /  the  Bodies  of  /  Ann  Renshaw  /  who  died  April  30, 1809  / 
Aged  4  years  6  months /and  9  days  /  And  /  Francis  J.  Renshaw/ 
died  Nov.  23.  1811 /Aged  7  years  10  months /&  18  days.     Children 
of  Richard  &  Mary  E.  Renshaw 

B-18 
In  Memory  /  of  /  John  Young /who  departed  this  Life /June  26 
1790 /Aged  76  Years 

His  Comfort  was  the  precious  plea 
Jesus  has  liv'd  and  died  for  me. 

B-19,  Altar  Tomb 
In  Memory  of/M"^  Deborah  Palmer /wife  of /John  Palmer/ 
Who  died  July  8  1783 /Aged  64  Years / also / John  Pahner/Who 
died /April  8^^  1797 /Aged  80  years /John  Palmer /Son  of  John 
&  Deborah  Palmer /who  departed  this  Life /March  27  /also/ 

Alice  M.  Palmer /wife  of  John  R  Palmer /who  departed  this  life/ 
January  19.  1838 /Aged  72  years  3  months  &  11  days /Also  in 
Memory  of  /  Josiah  W.  Kirk  who  departed  this  life  /  on  the  1^*  day 
of  May  1850  in  the  52°^  year  of  his  age 

B-20 
Sacred /to  the  memory  of /John  Palmer  Kirk /Son  of /Eli  and 
Elizabeth  M.  Kirk /who  died  April  ll*'*  1833 /Aged  3  years  and  1 
month 

2*36 


In0ctiption0  on  7lomb0tont0  anti  PauItiEt 

B-21 

In /memory  of /Francis  Procter  Sen'' /who  departed  this  life/ 
March  12  1792  aged  87  years /Gen^  Thomas  Procter /departed  this 
life /March  16.  1807  Aged  67  years  /  Also  /  Anna  Maria  wife  of/ 
Tho^  Procter  /  departed  this  life  /  June  1^*  1789  aged  years  /  Rob- 
ert Charlton  /  departed  this  life  /  Jan^  31^*^  1787  aged  36  years 

B-22,  Altar  Tomb 
Sacred /to   the   Memory   of /Isaac   Fitzrandolph  /  who   departed 
this  Life  October  14*1^  A.  D.  1804 /In  the  Fifty  seventh  year  of  his 
age 

The   voice   from   Heaven   declares 

To  those  in  Christ  who  die 
Eeleas'd  from  all  their  Earthly  cares 
They  reign  with  him  on  high 

B-23 
In  Memory  of /William  P.  Johnston  /  died  March  6"^^  1816 /in 
the  79'^  year  of  his  age 

C-1 
In    Memory    of /Hester   Wife    of/Eman^    Rinedollar  /  who    de- 
parted this  life/Nov"^  25'*^  1799 /in  the  ^0^^  Year /of  her  age 

C-2 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Joseph  Beaks /who  departed  this 
life /April  6'^  1772  Aged  46  years /also  Jane  his  wife /who  de- 
parted this  life /October  2^  1777  Aged  41  years  /  Also  /  Captain 
Joseph  Beaks /who  died  at  Sea  July  1795 /aged  80  years  &  3 
months  /  also  Elizabeth  his  daughter  /  who  died  at  sea  with  her 
father /Aged  6  years /Also  Sarah  Beaks  who  departed  /  this  life 
September  24^^  1795  /  Aged  30  years  /  also 

C-3 

Sacred  /  to  /  the  memory  of /Jane  Beaks /who  departed  this  life 
/October  16*1^  1837 /Aged  14  years / also / Elizabeth / Widow  of 
the  late  Cap*  Lewis  Mory/who  departed  this  Life /October  12*^^ 
1847 /Aged  79  years 

C^ 
Here /Lies    the    Body    of /Mary    Murdick  /  Daughter    of /John 
&  Hannah  Murdick/ Who  departed  this  Life/ July  17"^  1787 /Aged 
1  Year  and  10  Months 

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C-5 

In /Memory  of /Ann  Daughter  of  William  /  and  Mary  Ander- 
son/who departed  this  Lite/ 15^^  Jan'^'  1790 /Aged  12  Years  & 
17  Days /Much  esteemed  when  living  for /her  amiable  vertiues 
by  all  who  /  had  the  pleasure  of  an  acquaintance  /  with  her. 

C-6 

In  Memory  of  /  Elizabeth  /  the  wife  of /James  Ferguson  /  Who 
departed  this  Life /August  ll'^'^  1797 /Aged  47  years  /  Also  /  Eliza- 
beth /  daughter  of  E  &  A  /  Grand  daughter  of  J  &  E.  Ferguson 
/who  departed  this  life  Feb.  6*'^  1845 /Aged  2  years  6  months /& 
15  days 

C-7 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Margaret  Laskey  /  daughter  of /Ed- 
ward and  Catharine / Laskey / who  was  born  April  24**^  1783 /and 
departed  this  Life /January  11*^^  1809 /Aged  25  years  8  months  & 
25  days 

C-8 

In  Memory  of  /  Edward  Laskey  /  who  departed  this  Life  /  May 
6^^  1800 /Aged  52  years  8  months /and  21  Days 

No  pomp  ■  nor  grandeur  swell  'd/his  humble  name 
The  honest  Man  will  reap/immortal  fame 

Also  /  Catharine  Laskey  /  Who  departed  this  Life  /  December  the 
27t'i  1810 /Aged  59  Years  10  Months /and  3  Days 

C-9 
Sacred  /  to    the    memory    of  /  Catharine    Boyd  /  wife    of  /  Jamies 
Boyd /who  departed  this  Life  /  February  8  1808 /aged  32  years  & 
2  months  /  and  8  days 

C-10 
In  Memory  of  /  Mary  the  Wife  of  /  Richard  Hunt  /  who  departed 
this  Life  /  May  1^*  1793  /  Aged  34  Years 

C-11 
Here  lie  the  remains  of /Jane  Wife  of /Edward  Moyston/of 
this  City /Who  departed  this  Life /on  the  23-^  of  March  A.  D.  1791 
/Aged  34  Years / likewise  their  two  children 

C-12 
In  Memory  of /Mary,  Daughter  of /John  &  Margaret  /  Webb, 
Departed / this  Life   June   17th / 1774 / Aged  5   Years  &  1   Mo./ 
Transitory  World  /  Farewell,  Jesus  calls /With  Him  to  Dwell. 

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C-13 

In  Memory  of /Abraham  George  Copper /who  died  March  20^'' 
/ 1790 /Aged  14  Years  &  6  Months /Son  of  Norris  &  Elizabeth 
Copper /Cap*  Norris  Copper /was  lost  at  Sea /in  January  1778/ 
Aged  50  Years. 

C-14 

Beneath  this  Stone /Repose  the  remains /  of  /  Cap*  John  Dona- 
ven  /  who  departed  this  life  /  on  the  16'"''  day  of  /  December  1814  / 
in  the  SS*"^  year  of  his  age /in  the  same  grave  are  deposited /the 
remains  of  his  daughter  Mary /who  followed  her  Father /the  17*^ 
day  of  March  1815  /  aged  5  months  and  17  days  /  Near  to  this  spot  / 
lie  buried  the  remains  of/M""^  Elizabeth  Barger  /  sister  to  Cap* 
Donaven  who  died  on  the  IS"*  July  1796  /  Aged  18  years. 

C-15 
A  flat  stone,  inscription  of  which  is  entirely  obliterated.  This  is 
the  place  of  interment  of  Plunket  Fleeson,  who  died  August  21,  1791. 
He  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1712,  was  Ensign  of  Second  Com- 
pany o^  Associators  in  1749,  and  a  Founder  of  the  Hibemia  Engine 
Company  in  1752.  A  justice  of  the  City  Court,  1780,  and  a  Direc- 
tor of  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital. 

C-16 

In  Memory  of /Matthias  Sadler /who  departed  this  Life  the  18*'" 
of /April  1798 /Aged  42  Years  9  Months  &  14  days /Also  of/ 
Eleanor  Wife  of /Matthias  Sadler /who  departed  this  life /April 
24th  1826  aged  74  years /I  know  in  whom  I  have  believed  /  Also  of 
/Elizabeth  Tallman^sa / Born  A.  D.  1777 /Died  A.  D.  1861 /Aged 
84  years 

C-17,  Altar  Tomb 

In  memory  of /George  HeyP^/who  departed  this  life /on  the 
25*^  January  1815 /aged  75  years /Also  of/Dorathea  Wife  of/ 


15a  The  great  aunt  of  Mrs.  Arthur  H.  Lea,  of  Philadelphia. 

15  George  Heyl,  son  of  George  Thomas  Heyl,  who,  born  August  2, 
1702,  married  April  27,  1728,  Susanna  Sternheim,  and  shortly  thereafter 
came  from  Baden,  Germany,  and  settled  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  died, 
October  31,  1760.  His  sons,  Philip  and  George,  were  Eevolutionary 
soldiers  from  Philadelphia.  The  latter,  born  1740,  executed  his  will 
June  10,  1812,  and  named  therein,  wife  Dorothea,  children  George,  Wil- 
liam, Mary  Clapier,  Elizabeth  Johnson  and  Susanna  Harman.  He 
married  Dorothea  Phile,  and  with  her  was  party  to  deed  of  January  20. 
1787,  from  Dr.  Frederick  Phile  and  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  of  Philadelphia, 

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George   Heyl/Who    departed   this   life /on   the   30^^    September/ 
Aged  74  years 

C-18 
Sacred /to    the    memory    of /Susannah    Harman  /  Consort    of/ 
Jacob  Harman  /  who  departed  this  Life  August  /  23'"'i  1844  Aged  49 
years/ 11   months   and  16   days / Also / Jacob   Harman   Sen'"/who 
departed  this  life  /  Dec'"  IS^i*  1857  /  in  the  94*1*  year  of  his  age 

C-19 
Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Frances  Sophia  /  Daughter  of /Rich- 
ard and  Elizabeth  Johnson /Died  May  25**1  1805 /aged  8  months 
and  24  days  /  Also  /  Frederick  Seeger/son  of /Richard  and  Eliza- 
beth Johnson /Died  July  8^^  1808 /aged  11  days  /  Also  /  Richard 
Johnson /Died  August  2<i  / 1816  /  Aged  75  years  and  9  months/ 
Also /Elizabeth /Wife  of /Richard  Johnson /Died  August  22^ 
1843  /  aged  79  years  4  months  /  and  12  days 

C-20 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Mary  Vanderhalt  /  who  departed  this 
life  /  December  7'*^  1847  /  in  the  84  year  of  her  age 

C-21,  Small  Altar  Tomb 
In  Memory  /  of  /  Margaret  Butler /who  departed  this  Life/ June 
1764 /Aged  years /Also   her   friend /Ann   Cannon^^/Who 

died  Sept  20  1809  Aged  85  years 

C-22 
In  Memory  of /Robert  Son  of /Rob*  &  Elizabeth  Carson /who 
departed  this  Life /June  2^  1796 /in  the  22^  Year /of  his  age/ 
Transitory  world /Jesus  Call'd  with  him  to  dwell  /  Also  /  Elizabeth 
yeaton  Carson  /  his  Mother  /  who  died  May  1.  1816.  /  Bom  Sept  17. 
1739. 

D-1 
In /memory  of /Benjamin  Robbins/who  departed  this  life /Jan 
31^*  1834 /In  the  ^5^^  year  of /his  age  /  Also  /  Ruth  Daughter  of/ 


for  three  hundred  and  eighty-four  acres  of  land,  called  "  Philesburg," 
on  East  Allegheny  Elver,  in  Westmoreland  County,  Penna.  George 
Heyl  was  a  well-known  merchant  of  his  day ;  Dr.  Phile  was  Naval  Officer 
at  the  Port  of  Philadelphia  1777-1791  and  a  distinguished  surgeon  in 
the  Revolution,  George  A.  Heyl,  Esq.,  long  a  member  of  the  Colonial 
Society,  is  a  great  grandson. 

icMrs.  Ann  Cannon  was  a  benefactor  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  having 
presented  one  of  the  two  silver  flagons  to  the  Church  marked  ' '  The  Gift 
of  Mrs.  Ann  Cannon  to  the  Altar  of  St.  Paul's  Church." 

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Benjamin   &   Susan   Robbins/Who   died   Sept  le'i*  1822 /Aged  8 
months  and  2  days 

D-2 


Q 


Sacred  to  the  memory  of /John  Robbins/who  died  February  24. 
1808  /  aged  59  years  9  months  &  12  days  /  Elizabeth  /  Wife  of  John 
Robbins/who  died  February  17  1819 /aged  66  years  1  month  &  7 
days  /  Catharine  /  Daughter  of /John  &  Elizabeth  Robbins/who 
died  October  13.  1798 /aged  19  years  2  months  &  26  days /John/ 
Son  of /John  &  Elizabeth  Robbins/who  died  July  24  1842 /aged 
70  years  1  month  &  28  days 

D-3 

In /memory  of /The  Son  and  Daughter /of  John  &  Elizabeth/ 
Robbins / Alexander    Departed / this    Life  1778 /Aged    10 

Months  &  2  Weeks/       Day /Susannah  Departed  /  this  Life   Oct 
1783 

D^ 


Q 


Elizabeth  Robbins /Died  Sep'"  30^11  1850 /in  the  76*^  year  of  her 
age 

D-5 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Enoch  Wheaton/who  departed  this 
life/Sep"-  9'^  1825  aged  48 /years  11  months  &  18  days 

Dear  mourn   not   for  me 

We  soon  shall  again  united  be. 

D-6 

Sacred  /  to  the  memory  of  /  Martha  Read  /  wife  of  /  Francis  Read  / 
who  died  Sep®""  22"^  1840 /aged  83  years  and  two /months 

My  flesh  shall  slumber  in  /  the  ground 
Till  the  last  trumpets  joy  /  ful  sound 
Then  burst  my  bonds  wi  /  th  sweet  surprise 
And  in  my  Saviour 's  image  /  rise 

Also /Francis    Read /husband    of    Martha    Read  /  departed    this 
life /August  16*'^  1848 /aged  93  years 
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D-7 

In /Memory  of /Mary  Stuart  /  Daughter  of /John  &  Martha 
Stuart /who  departed  this  Life /August  30^^  1799 /Aged  16  Years 
11  Months /&  7  Days 

D-8 
In  Memory  of  /John  Clark  /  who  departed  this  Life  /  29  June  1792 
/Aged  28  Years. 

D-9 
In  Memory  of  /  Mary  Ann  daughter  of  /  George  &  Martha  Hall  / 
who  departed  this  Life  /  February  16'i»  1802  /  aged  1  Year  / 1  Month 
&  24  days 

Fresh  in  the  morn  the  summer's  rose 
Hangs  wither 'd  e'er  t'is  noon 
We  scarce  enjoy  the  balmy  gift 
But  mourn  the  pleasures  gone 

D-10 

In /memory  of  Elizabeth  M^Kay/wife  of  Thomas  M'^Kay/who 
departed  this  life /August  17^^^  1826 /aged  65  years  and  9  days/ 
Also  in  memory  of  /  Thomas  &  Elizabeth  /  Son  &  Daughter  of  / 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  M'=Kay/Tho«  departed  this  life/Dec'"  7*-^ 
1813 /aged  17  years  and  10  months /And  Elizabeth  June  29^^  1802 
/aged  4  years  1  month  and  1  day /Also  Thomas  M^'Kay  Sen'"/who 
departed  this  life  /  June  4'^i»  1850  /  in  the  70'''  year  of  his  age 

D-11 

In /Memory  of /Ann  Doughty  /  Daughter  of  James  &/ Margaret 
Doughty /was  Bom  June  23'"'^  1782 /and  departed  this  Life /Sept 
22°d  1786 /Aged  4  Years  &  3  Months 

D-12 

In  Memory  of /M""^  Mary  Biggs /Relict  of/M""  Ephraim  Biggs 
Dec^  /  formerly  a  Merchant /of  this  city /who  departed  this  Life/ 
the  22'^  Day  of  Oct'  1794 /in  the  73  year  of  her  Age 

D-13 
Sacred  /  to  the  memory  /  of  /  Susannah  Goodwin  /  Wife  of  John 
Goodwin /who  departed  this  Life /April  SO*'*  1806 /aged  40  years 
&  10  months 

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D-14 

Here  lieth  the  /of /Richard  Neave*^/  /London/ 

Merchant  /  who  /  Departed   this   Life /in /the  /1795 

Aged  84  Years  /  Richard^s  [Neave]  /  [four  lines  illegible] 

18  R.  N.  died  Feb''  23,  1809. 

D-15 

James  Norris  Copper /Died  March  19*i»  1833 /aged  23  years/ 
Annie  Sayles  Copper  /  Died  March  lO***  184   /  aged  29  years 

In  Memory  of /John  Barker  Jun'/who  died  June  16*^/1773/ 
Aged  13  Months 

D-16,  Altar  Tomb 

In  memory  of /Charles  Kirkham/who  departed  this  life /July 
5*^^  1810 /In  the  55*1^  year  of  his  age / Also / Deborah  Kirkham/ 
his  widow  /  who  departed  this  life  /  July  18t»»  1814  /  in  the  60^^^  year 
of  her  age 

D-17 

Born  /  the  14^^*  November  17      and  /  Departed  this 
life  the         day/ 177  Years/  / 

Wife/  17  /and  Departed  this  Life/ 

1771  [?]   [17  lines  illegible] 

[This  is  probably  Tomb  of  Thos.  Edward  Wallace.] 

D-18  ~~ 

In /Memory  of /Mary  Daughter  of /Doctor  William  &  Mary/ 
Claypoole/of  Wilmington  /  N°  Carolina /who  departed  this  Life/ 
October  ll^i*  1793  Aged  3  Years  /  and  6  Months. 

D-19 
In  Memory  of/M"  Mary  Yorke/Wife  of/Capt°  Peter  Yorke 
/who  departed  this  Life/Feb^  26*1^  1797 /in  the  24t»»  Year /of  her 
Age 

D-20 

In  Memory  of /George  Claypoole  /  Who  departed  this  Life /Oc- 
tober 4'^  1793 /Aged  60  years /Also  Catharine  Claypoole  /  Who 
departed  this  Life  /  March  31^*  1770  /  Aged  33  years 

Jesus  can  make  a  dying  Bed 
Feel  soft  as  downy  pillows  are 
While  on  his  Breast  I  lean  my  head 
And  breathe  my  Life  out  sweetly  there 


IT  Church  Records  say  that  Richard  Neave  was  buried  July  12,  1795. 

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D-21,  Altar  Tomb 
In  memory  of /Mary  wife  of  Jeffrey  Clark /who  departed  this 
life /March  IS^^^  1778 /aged  69  years  /  Also  /  Jeffrey  Clark^^b  /  ^j^q 
departed  this  life  /  Jan?  20**^  1782  /  aged  79  years  /  Also  /  John  Tur- 
ner/who departed  this  life /May  23'^  1825 /in  the  78*^  year  of  his 
age  /  Also  /  Mary  wife  of  John  Turner /who  departed  this  life/ 
October  20*^  1833  /  in  the  86''^  year  of  her  age 

D-22 
Abigail  Lowry/Died  Feb.  25  1851 /aged  85  years / Also / Mar- 
garet Lowry/Died  April  25.  1851 /aged  81  years 

D-23 

In  Memory  of /Thomas  &  Ellen  Muskett/Who  Departed  this 
Life  October /l"!  1793.     She  Aged  44  Years /He  October  7* 

1793  Aged       Years  /  Also  their  other  children  who  died  /  Young.  / 
(4  lines) 

D-24 

Sacred  /  to  the  memory  of  /  Mary  Curtis  /  who  departed  this  life  / 
on  the  S*-^  day  of  March  1821  /  in  the  28^^  year  of  her  age  /  Also  in 
memory  of  /  Abigail  Curtis  /  who  departed  this  life  /  on  the  IS***  day 
of  April  1828 /in  the  28'*^  year  of  her  age /Daughter  of  John  and 
Elizabeth  Curtis 

D-25 

Sacred  /  to  the  memory  of  /  Jacob  B  Curtis  /  Son  of  John  H.  & 
Sarah  0  Curtis /who  departed  this  life /on  the  1^'  day  of  January 
1821 /in  the  7'''  year  of  his  age /Also  of  John  Curtis /who  de- 
parted this  life /on  the  27^1^  day  of  September  1820 /in  the  65*'* 
year  of  his  age /And  of  Elizabeth  Curtis /Wife  of  John  Curtis/ 
who  departed  this  life /on  the  30*1^  day  of  July  1831 /in  the  68t'» 
year  of  her  age 

D-26,  Altar  Tomb 

In  Memory  of /William  Cameron /who  departed  this  life /Sep- 
tember 29ti>  1793  /  aged  29  years 

I  saw  him  faint!     I  saw  him  sink  to  rest 
Another  victim  midst  the  dying  throng 
But  resignation  oalm'd  his  gentle  breast 
And  heav'nly  accents  breathed  upon  his 


17b  Jeffrey  Clark,  great,  great,  great,  great  grandfather  of  L.  Irving 
Reichner,  of  the  Philadelphia  bar,  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Society. 

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Also  /  In  memory  of  /  James  Cameron  /  who  departed  this  life  / 
August  17^^  1825  /  in  the  64'^  year  of  his  age 

E-1 
Hear/Lieth  the  Body  of /Jacob  Vanseiver  Moore /the  son  of/ 
John  &  Hannah  Moore /Who  Departed  this  Life  August  20^**  in 
the  Year  of  our /Lord  1794  Aged  1  Year  &/5  Months  3  Weeks 
5  Days 

Death  hath  Leas'd  Our  Babe  And 
Tore  Him  from  our  Arms  in  Earth* 
Cold  Bosom.     Now  he  Lies  With 
All  his  Smiling  Infant  Charms. 

E-2 

In  /  Memory  /  of  /  Matthias  Keen /who  died  /  February  21  1784 
/aged  73  years  /  Also  /  Mary  Keen /who  died /July  12  1791  aged 
75  years 

E-3 

In  /  Memory  /  of  /  Matthias  V.  Keen^^  /  who  died  /  October  20*'* 
1806 /aged  59  years  /  Also  /  Elizabeth  Keen /who  died /May  10'*»- 
1830  aged  80  years 

E^ 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Sarah  Morrison  /  Wife  of  William 
Morrison /who  departed  this  life/ June  26^^  1832 /in  the  80*''  year 
of  her  age 

E-5 

Sacred  /  to  the  memoiy  of  /  Robert  Bayne  /  who  departed  this 
transitory / life  on  the  le***  April  1815 /in  the  40***  year  of  his  age 

How  serious  is  the  summoning  of  death 
Solemn  the  moment  man  resigns  his  breath 
Awful!  that  verge  of  dread  eternity 
Tio  which  we  hasten  and  whence  none  can  fly 
Great  God!  our  leader  and  our  guardian  be 
And  take  us  when  from  time  we  go  to  thee. 
Also   of  /  Samuel  P.  Bayne  /  who   departed  this  life  /  Sep'  26*'» 
1821 /Aged  15  years  6  months  &  10  days 

E-6 

In  Memory  of  /  Joseph  Wright  /  Son  of  Anthony  &  Hannah 
Wright  /  who  was  born  Sept  6  1769  /  and  departed  this  Life  Sept 


19  Matthias  Valentine  Keen,  vestryman  1794-1804,  and  Elizabeth 
Hood,  his  wife.  For  further  particulars,  see  Descendants  of  Joran  Kyn 
of  New  Sweden,  by  Gregory  Bernard  Keen,  LL.D. 

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13/ 1779 /Aged  10  years  &  7  days  /In  Memory  of /John  W. 
Wright /who  was  Born  April  16^'»  1776 /and  departed  this  Life 
May  llti»/ 1794 /Aged  18  years  &  25  days/  Children  in 

thee /In  Hopes  we  /In  Christ  divine 

E-7 
In  Memory  of /Joseph  Son  of  John  &  Mary  Miller/   who  Died 
4"»  July  1796 /Aged  8  Months 

E-8 
In  Memory  of /Mary   Smith /the  Wife  of/Jonithin   Smith /& 
Daughter  of /John   Hyde /Who  departed  this  Life /January  the 
24^''  1793 /Aged  22  Years. 

E-9 
In  Memory  of/Worsley  Ernes  Esq^^/A  Member  of  the  Cincin- 
nati/who departed  this  Life /July  the  27ti»  1802 /Aged  62  Years 

E-10 
In /Memory  of /Sarah  Hicks /Wife  of  William  Hicks /Daugh- 
'ter  of  Adam  &/ Elizabeth  Keller /who  departed  this  Life /the  ll*** 
of  September  /  Anno  Domini  1803 /Aged  24  Years  9  months /and 
:20  days 

In  midst  of  Health  &  Blooming  youth 
How  sudden  Death  O  Death  did  come 
Her  days  of  sickness  were  her 
And  then  lay  silent  in  the  tomb 

E-11 

In   Memory   of/Reachel   Barnes/ Who   departed  this  Life /Oc- 
tober 19'»»  1772 /Aged /I  Year/ 6  Months 

E-12 

In    Memory    of/M"    Elizabeth   Beard /Wife    of/Capt°    Will™ 
Beard /who  departed  this  life /October  11*^  1796 /Aged  46  Years 

E-13 
In  /  memory     of  /  Hannah  /  daughter     of  /  Thomas     and    Mary  / 
Stiles  /  who  departed  this  life  /  June  the  22°^  1803  /  Aged  10  months 
/  and  22  days. 

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E-14 
In  Memory  of /William  Son   of /William   &   Mary  Lane /who 
departed  this  Life /October  the  IS*'*  1801 /aged  1  year  2  months/ 
and  4  days  /  [4  lines] 

E-15 
/  Mary  Daught  /  of  John  /  Mary  ™<=Nilans. 

/  Deceaced  June  y®  /  1773  /  Aged  7  years  &  4  mon 

E-16 
In  memory  /  of  /  M""^  Mary  Rose /who  departed  this  life /on  the 
13*^^  day  of  April / 1803 /  Aged  63  Years/  [5  lines] 

E-17 
In   Memory   of /William   Nelson /who    departed   this   Life /the 
8^^  of  January  1781 /Aged  82  Years  /  also  /  Ann  his   Wife /who 
died  June  25*1*  178   /  Aged  62  Years 

E-18 
Gulyann  Molier  /  departed  this  Life  the  2  Year  of /her  Age /in 
the  Year  of  our  Lord  1797/   Esther  Molier  /  departed  this  Life  the 
3  Year  of  /  her  Age  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  179 

Here  Here  they  lie  O  could  I  once  more  view 
These  dear  remains  take  one  more  fond  Adieu 
Where  friendly  Angels  for  their  guidance  given, 
Now  leads  them  through  the  Courts  of  Heaven. 

E-19 
In  Memory  of  /  W™  Potter  Benson  /  Son  of  P.  &  Jane  Benson  / 
who   departed   this   life /June   6*'*   1800 /aged   16   months/    Also 
Frederick  /  Son  of  the  above /who  died /June  18''>  1800 /aged  2 
Y"  &  11  Months. 

E-20 

In  Memory  of/  Jane   P  Benson  /  Daughter  of  /  Peter  &   Jane  / 
Benson  who  /  departed  this  life  /  August  7*^  1794  /  Aged  20  months. 

E-21 
Sacred/ to  the  memory  of /William   Stokes /who   departed  this 
life  /  February  9^^  1803 /aged  46  years/    Also /Mary  Stokes /his 
relict /who  fell  asleep  in  Jesus /Dec""  18*'*  1828 /aged  72  years 

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E-22 

Thomas  Wright  Armat/Bom  June  14  1776 /Died  July  30  1806 

E-23 
Here  lies /the  Body  of /M"  Jane  Babb/who  departed  this  Life 
/October  the  8^^  1783 /In  the  29^1'  Year /of  her  Age/  [5  lines] 

E-24 

In  Memory  of /Matthew  Parker /Who  departed  this  life  Sep- 
tember/the 9^^  1793  in  the  40'*^  year  of /his  Age  /  Likewise  /  Cath- 
arine his  Wife  Who  died  /  September  the  12ti»  1793  j^  ^he  42°^/ 
Year  of  her  Age /Also  of  5  of  their  children  /  John  Aged  2  Years 
and  6  Months  /  Joseph  Aged  3  Years  and  3  Months  /  Samuel  Aged 
1  Year  and  7  Months /Lydia  Aged  1  Year  and  1  Month /And 
Joseph  Pilmore  Who /Departed  this  Life  September  the  25/1793 
Aged  2  Years  5  Months  &  12  Days 

E-25 
Here  lieth  the  Body /of  Benjamin  Town /May  20  1790 /Aged  41 
Years /and  5  Months 

E-26 
In /memory    of/M""   Benj.    Holland /who    departed   this   Life/ 
Ocf  29^^/ 1796 /aged  43  years 

E-27 

In  memory/ of /W™  &  Eliza  Matilda /Son  &  daughter  of/W™ 
&  Eliza  Gartley/1806 

F-l 

[West  side]  In  memory /of /Benjamin  Masden  Esq^'/who  de- 
parted /  this  life  /  April  6'*^  1836  /  aged  65  years  /  and  7  months 

[South  side]  In  memory/ of /M"  Prudence  Masden /wife  of/ 
Benjamin  Masden /who  departed  /  this  life  /  September  lO*''  1818/ 
aged  59  years 

[East  side]  In  memory  of /Benjamin  Masden  Jun^'/son  of/ 
Benjamin  &  Hannah  Masden /who  departed  this  life /March  26*^* 
1837 /aged  6  years  &  21  days /also  of /Ann  S  Masden  /  daughter 
of /Benjamin  (Sj  Hannah  Masden /who  departed  this  life /March 
27th  1837  /  aged  15  years  &  11  days 

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F-2 

In  Memory  of  /  Rachel  /  the  wife  of /Thomas  Webb /who  de- 
parted this  Life / December  the  23'-^  1795 /Aged  27  Years 

By  ministerial  Spirits  convy'd 
Lodg'd  in  the  garner  of  the  Sky 
She  rests  in  Abraham's  bosom  laid 
She  lives  with  God  no  more  to  Die 

F-3 

In   Memory   of /John   Webb /who    departed   this   Life /Oct 
1773  Aged/     Years 

F-4 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Mary  wife  of /James  Wilson /who 
departed  this  life  /  October  14  1835  /  aged  38  years  &  10  days  / 
Also  /  Edward  her  son  /  who  departed  this  life  /  October  1821.  / 
aged  20  years  3  months  &  6  days 

F-5 

In /Memory  of /Thomas  and  William /Sons  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  Fenton  /  William  departed  this  Life /June  19'^  1793 /Aged 
3  Years  2  Months  &  25  Days  /  Thomas  departed  this  Life  /  Septem- 
ber 4^'^  1793 /Aged  18  Years  &  6  Months / Also / Mary  Fenton/ 
Who  departed  this  life /May  6'^  1800 /Aged  4  Years 

F-6 

In /Memory  of /James  P.  Carteret /son  of /Daniel  &  Emily 
Carteret  /  who  Departed  this  Life  /  October  aged  17  Years 

/9  Months  &  9  Days/  [8  Lines] 

F-7 

In  Memory  of  /  Thomas  Flower  /  Son  of  /  Tho^  &  Hannah  Flower 
/who  departed  this  life /March  7^^^  1801 /aged  3  years  &  6  months 
/  and  27  days 

F-8 
In  Memory  of /George  McPherson  /  Son  of /Daniel  and  Ann/ 
McPherson  /  who  departed  this /life  on  the  17*'^  DeC  / 1801  /  Aged 
7  Years  &  11  Months 

F-9 
In  Memory  of /Ann  Maria  McPherson  /  daughter  of /Daniel  and 
Ann  /  McPherson  /  who  departed  this /life  Dec-"  24'i»  1801 /Aged  2 
Years  &  15  days 

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F-IO 

In  Memory  of  /  Daniel  /  the  Son  of  Daniel  &  Ann  McPherson/ 
who  departed  this  Life  /  June  the  3^^  1796  /  Aged  8  Months  /  Also 
W™  McPherson / who  departed  this  Life  14  Oct./ 1798.  Aged  5 
weeks. 

F-11 

[West  side]  Beneath  this  Stone /was  deposited  /  the  Body  of/ 
Catharine  /  Wife  of /William  Thackara  Sen^'/who  departed  this 
life /on  the  13t»»  day  of/ July  A.  D.  1780 /aged  35  years /Under 
this  Stone  lies /the  remains  of /William  Thackara  Sen^'/who  de- 
parted this  life  /  on  the  10'^  day  of  /  April  A.  D.  1817  /  aged  79  years 

Sacred  /  to  the  memory  of  /  deceased  Parents 

r-12 

To  the  Memory  of/Rosannah  Wright /who  departed  this  Life 
/  Oct"-  7  1793  /  Aged  28  Years 

F-13 
Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Joseph  Wright /who  departed  this 
life  /  Febn\ary  10"^  1810  /  aged  40  years  6  months  /  &  10  days 

Adieu  dear  friends  I  take  my  leave 

Farewell  my  loving  wife 
Our  children  shall  your  guardian's  be 

And  bless  your  widow 'd  life 
When  from  this  world  you  are  releas'd 

It's  sorrows  toils  and  cares 
In  everlasting  joy  we  '11  meet 

To  sing  our  Makers  praise 

r-14 
Sacred/ to  the  Memory  of /John  Meer  Sen'^o/who  was  bom  at/ 
Wolverhampton   England  /  February   9^^   1756 /&   died   July   29'^ 


20  John  Meer,  Sr.,  was  an  artist  and  lived  at  No.  4  South  7th  Street, 
below  Market  Street.  He  married  a  widow,  Mary  Grould  West.  She  is 
buried  in  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery.  Her  first  husband,  Captain  Josiah  West, 
was  a  jeweler  on  Second  Street  below  Market  Street  and  he  was  a  com- 
municant. He  is  buried  in  Trinity  Church  Yard,  New  York  City.  A 
daughter,  Caroline  West,  attended  St.  Paul's  until  1845.  She  married 
Joseph  C.  Eandall,  a  well-known  and  highly  respected  merchant  of  this 
city,  and  among  her  descendants  are  numbered  Edmund  Eandall,  Esq., 
of  the  Philadelphia  Bar,  and  Caroline  Eandall  Deaver,  the  wife  of  the 
distinguished  American"  surgeon.  Dr.  John  B.  Deaver,  of  Philadelphia. 

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1831 /For  41  years  a  Citizen /of  Philadelphia /  An  honest  man  is 
the /noblest  work  of  God. 

F-15 
In /memory    of  /  Elizabeth  /  wife   of   James  Matthews  who /de- 
parted  this   life   May   5*'*   1794 /aged    19   years /Also   of /James 
Matthews / Husband    of   the    above    named / Elizabeth    Matthews/ 
who  departed  this  life  the  /  16'i>  July  1812  aged  64  years  /  &  4  months 

F-16 

In /memory  of /John      n/who   departed  this  Life  /  September 
14*  1811 /Aged  /and  10  months 

r-17 
A  stone  undecipherable. 

F-18 

In /memory  of/Odell  Fennell/who  departed  this  Life /March 

1793 /in  the  39  year  of  his  age /Also  of  Edmund  Fennell/ 

Son  of/Odell  &  Margaret  Fennell/who  died  April  13'^  1818 /in 

the  26'^  year  of  his  age /In  memory  of /John  Vallance/  (a  native 

of  Glasgow.)  /who  died  June  14*^  1823 /aged  53  years 

F-19 
In  Memory  /  of  Margaret  /  of  /  / 

also  of /Margaret  Vallance/  /who  died /Feb- 

ruary 8.  1827  /  aged  44  years. 

F-20 

In  /  memory  /  of  /  Conrad  Seyfert/who  departed  this  life /July 
the  8*^  1822 /Aged  33  years /He  was  an  affectionate  husband/ 
Kind  parent  and  a  friend  to  /  his  country  and  all  mankind  [6  lines 
illegible] 

Also  of/ Elizabeth  Seyfert/his  Wife /Who  departed  this  life  on 
/  the  17th  day  of  September  1840  /  In  the  72"^  year  of  her  age 

F-21 

In /memory  of /George  Halberstadt  /  who  departed  this  life/ 
May  23^  1812 /Aged  44  years  6  months /and  27  days /And  also/ 
Anne  relict  of /George  Halberstadt  /  who  departed  this  life /on 
the  4'»»  day  of  April  1846.  /  in  the  72°^  year  of  her  age  [2  lines] 

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F-22 
In /memory  of  /  Frances  /  Daughter  of /Thomas  &  Ann  Youngs 
/who  departed  this  Life /July  7^^  1805 /aged  3  years  2  months/ 
and  7  days 

F-23 
In  Memory  of /Richard  Son  of/Thos  &  Ruth  Watkins/Who 
died/Dec"-  31^*  1796 /Aged  2  Years/ 10  Months  &  20  days. 

F-24 

In  Memory  of  /  William  Son  of  /  Tho^  &  Ruth  Watkins  /  who  died 
/Dec"-  29'!'  1796./ Aged  8  Months /&  19  Days. 

F-25 
In /memory  of /Ann  Halberstadt  /  who  departed  this  life /April 
6*^  1812 /Aged  16  years  6  months /and  14  days  [8  lines  illegible] 

F-26 
In   Memory   of /Ann   Wife   of /John    Cromwell /who   departed 
this  Life /Oct  15  1793 /in  the      Year  of  her  Age /Also  of /Mary 
their  daughter /who  died  18  1793 /Aged        Days  [4 

lines  illegible] 

F-27 
Mary  Armat/Died  July  22  1780 

F-28 
In  Memory  of /Margaret  Cromwell  /  Wife  of /John  Cromwell/ 
Who  departed  this  Life /October  the  15^11  1798 /Aged  34  Years  & 
9  Months 

Eest  here  in  hope  O  Sacred  dust 
To  awake  and  shine 

Also  of  John  Cromwell / Died  June  7*-^  1828 /in  the  60''*  year 
of  his  age 

F-29 

In /Memory  of /Mary  Richards  /  Wife  of  John  Richards /who 
departed  this  Life  /  the  18^^  of  Sepf  1800  /  aged  59  years 

F-30 
Sacred /To  the  Memory  of /Ann  Dawson /Wife  of  Joshua  Daw- 
son/who   departed  this  Life /the  24'*'  of  March   179   /Aged  2r 

years  [2  lines  illegible] 

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Also /In  Memory  of  their  infant  /  daughter  Sarah  who  died  the 
18^11  of  September  1793  /  aged  3  days 

G-1 
In   Memory  of /Deborah   "Wife   of /Francis   Shaffner/who   de- 
parted this  Life  Ocf  llti"  1793  /  Aged  28  Years  9  months 

G^2 

In  Memory  of /James  Forder^i/who  departed  this  Life /Sept 
1794.  /  [other  lines  illegible] 

G-3 
A  Stone  illegible. 

G-4 
In   Memory   of /Ann   Wife  of /Cap*   Edward   Spain /who   de- 
parted this  Life /Oct'  18^^^  1794 /Aged  60  Years /&'  6  Months  [4 
lines  illegible] 

G-5 
In  Memory  of /Daniel  Drais/who  departed  this  Life /Jan 
1791  in  the  38ti»  Year  of  his  Age/  [4  lines  iUegible] 

G^ 

In /memory  of /James  Harris /who  died  April  17*^*  1815 /aged 
77  years 

G^7 
Sarah  Nelson  /  "Wife  of  George  Nelson  /  Departed  this  Life  /  June 
15.  1782. 

G^8 
In /Memory  of/M""^  Margaret  Norman /"Wife  of/  / 

who  departed  this  Life  /  Oct°  7^^  1793  /  [4  lines  illegible] 

G-9 

In  Memory  of  /  George  Hinton  /  "Who  Died  11^*^  Oct"  1793  /  Aged 
30  Years.    Also  his  son. 

G-10 

In/ memory  of /George  Hinton /who  died  October  11  1793 /And 
of  his  widow  /  Barbary  Hinton  /  who  died  November  17*''  1816 


21  James  Forder,  died  Sept.  29,  1794, 

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G-ll 

In  Memory  of /George,  son  of/Capt°  James  Snell/and  Eliza 
his  Wife /who  departed  this  Life /April  13*''  1801 /Aged  11 
Months. 

"Here  rests  the  fairest  bud  of  hope  /  That  e'er  to  fondest  wish  was 
giv'n  / 

Oh  would'st  thou  know  its  happier  state /Repent  &  seek  the 
flow'r  in  heav'n." 

0^12 

In /memory  of /William  Alexander  /  Bom  July  l^'  1772 /Died 
Nov*-  17.  1806 /Also  of  his  Mother / Rachel  Alexander / who  died 
March  IG*''  1818 /Aged  77  years 

G-13 

In /Memory  of  James /Son  of /James  &  Rachel  /  Alexander  / 
who  departed  this  Life /July  29*''  1775  Aged /I  Year  &  6  Months 

0^14 
In  Memory  of  /  Elizabeth  /  Wife  of /James  Alexander  /  who  de- 
parted this  Life  /  January  24*»»  1771  /  Aged  30  Years 

0^15 
In   Memory   of /James   Alexander^^  /  who    departed   this   Life/ 


22  James  Alexander,  born  in  Belfast,  Ireland,  May  1,  1726,  came  to 
America  prior  to  1750  and  settled  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  a  sea 
captain,  residing  at  No.  10  Spruce  Street,  between  Front  and  Second 
Streets,  from  before  1761  to  1785  when  he  removed  to  Southwark.  In 
sympathy  with  the  American  cause  he  was  a  signer  of  the  Non-Importa- 
tion Eesolutions  of  1765,  and  served  in  Captain  Eichard  Barrett's  Com- 
pany of  Guards  for  Southwark  January  3  to  February  3,  1777.  On 
July  17,  1771,  he  married  Eachel  Craven  of  Gloucester  County,  New 
Jersey,  by  whom  he  had  four  children.  An  ardent  Mason,  he  was  an 
original  member  and  Secretary  of  Lodge  No.  2,  and  his  descendants  have 
continued  this  interest.  William  Alexander,  his  eldest  son,  member  of 
the  Philadelphia  bar,  was  made  a  Master  Mason  in  Lodge  No.  3,  March 
21,  1797.  Another  son,  Eichard  Alexander,  1780-1823,  was  a  member 
of  Lodge  No.  2,  and  Junior  Warden  at  the  time  of  his  decease.  A  grand- 
son, John  C.  Alexander,  1821-1885,  was  made  a  Master  Mason,  November' 
1853,  and  Worshipful  Master,  1865.  William  Cummings,  1806-1889,  a 
prominent  merchant  of  the  Port  of  Philadelphia,  who  married  his  grand- 
daughter, Emily  Eichardet  Alexander,  in  1831,  was  Worshipful  Master 
of  Lodge  No.  2,  1837-39,  during  the  Morgan  excitement  and  prevented 

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A  LEAF  FROM  THE  RECEIPT  BOOK  OF  JAMES  ALEXANDER  SHOWING  THE  PAYMENT 
OF  PEW  RENT  TO  ST.  PAUL'S  IN  1773,  OVER  143  YEARS  AGO,  TO  JOHN  WOOD 
AND  THOMAS  GORDON  OF  THE  VESTRY.  WOOD  WAS  A  WATCHMAKER  AND  IS 
BURIED  IN  FRONT  OF  THE  CHURCH.  JAMES  ALEXANDER  BECAME  A  MEMBER 
OF    ST.    PAUL'S    IN    1761. 


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[illegible]  /  Aged  66  Years  [James  Alexander  was  buried  1  Jami- 
ary  1795. 

a-16 

In /memory  of /Margaret  Alexander  /  Wife  of /James  Alexan- 
der /  who  departed  this  Life  /  June  1811  /  /  aged  / 
and  /  [stone  much  worn.]  [Mrs.  Alexander  buried  June  9. 
1811] 

G-17 

In /memory  of /James  Alexander  /  who  departed  this  life/Feb^ 
lyti^  1829 /Aged  53  years  &  11  months /and  27  days 

G-18 
In /memory   of /Rebecca   Robinson /Who    departed   this   Life/ 
April  18.  1775. /Aged       years. 

G-19 

Robert /Bartram/ died  May  27.  / 1775  /  Aged  14  Months. 

G-20 
In /memory  of /Maria  C  Cox /Daughter  of /Captain  John  and 
/Martha  Cox /who  departed  this  life /March  3.  1803 /aged  3  Years 
/  and  17  days 

G-21 
Samuel  Adam  Shaw /[born]  June  7.  1801 /died  in 
July  17.  1802  /  Aged  1  year  1  month  9  days  &  6  hours  /  A  patient 
Sufferer/ [The  greater  part  of  this  stone  illegible] 

G^22 

In /memory  of /James  Barbazett/who  departed  this  life /Janu- 
ary 28**'  1818 /aged  29  years  9  months /and  1  day. 

Departed  here  in  hope  face 

To  meet  the  Saviour  of  the  human . 


the  Lodge  from  surrendering  its  charter.  His  great-great-grandson, 
Norris  Stanley  Barratt,  was  made  a  Master  Mason  in  1886,  and  Wor- 
shipful Master  in  1895,  and  is  the  present  Representative  of  Lodge  No. 
2  in  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  serving  as  a  member  of  the 
Committee  on  Library;  is  also  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Council  of  the 
thirty-third  and  last  degree  of  freemasonry.  James  Barratt,  a  great- 
great-grandson  is  also  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  2. 

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G-23 

In /memory  of /Daniel  Gosner^'^  /  who  departed  this  life /May 
20.  1796./ aged  /Also  of  /  Rebecca  /  his  wife /who  died  Oc- 

tober 15.  1820  /  aged  68  years  &  6  months  /  and  —  days. 

GK-24 
In /Memory  of/M"  Elizabeth  Wife  of /Robert  Fitzgerald/ 
who  departed  this  Life/ November  26^11  1770 /in  the  28*1'  Year  of 
her  Age  /  Also  of  /  Robert  Mary  &  Kaziah  /  Children  of  /  Robert  & 
Kaziah  Fitzgerald  /  who  Died  in  Childhood  /  M"  Ann  Bell  /  aged  63 
years 

G-25 

In  /  memory  of  /  Robert  Fitzgerald  /  who  departed  this  life  /  April 
1^'  1813  Aged  73  years  [6  lines  indistinct] 

And  of /Elizabeth  daughter  of /Robert  and  Lydia  Fitzgerald/ 
who  died  August  17.  1790 /Aged  1  year  and  3  months 

G-26 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Lydia  Fitzgerald  /  Relict  of /Robert 
Fitzgerald /Bom  Feb  19  1737 /and  departed  this  life  Feb  4.  1830 
[8  lines  indistinct] 

Rebecca  A  Bell /Died  July  IS^h  1849  aged  33  years /Robert  F 
Bell /Died  August  16'»»  1850  aged  39  years 

G-27 
In /memory  of /Anthony  Fannen/who  departed  this  life  May 
the  2^  1827/  Aged  76  years 

G-28,  Altar  Tomb 
Sacred/ to  the  memory  of/ Harriet  H.  Consort /of  Geo.  W.  Gill 
/who  departed  this  life  July  ll*!'  1830 /aged  22  yrs  9  mos  &  16 
days / Also / George   Andrew   Son/  Harriet/  July 

7.  1830  /  aged  9  mos  10  days  [8  lines] 


23  Daniel  Gosoer,  son  of  Captain  Peter  Gosner,  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Continental  Line,  married  August  1,  1782,  Eebecca  Tybout,  born  April 
7,  1752  daughter  of  James  and  Comfort  (Kollock)  Tybout.  Children: 
Peter  Gosner;  James  T.  Gosner,  died  at  New  Orleans,  Sept.  21,  1804,  in 
ninetieth  year;  Ann  Gosner;  Hester  Gosner,  married  Thomas  Whitecar, 
of  Philadelphia,  and  had  issue. 

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ln0ctiptionfi  on  ^omh^tom^  anb  Wultfi 

GK-29 
In  /  memory  of  /  Francis  C  /  son  of  /  James  S.  and  Esther  /  Nally  / 
Aged  2  years  7 /months  and  28  days. 

G^-SO 

In /memory  of /Elizabeth  wife  of /Garrett  Hulsekamp  /  who  de- 
parted this  Life / September  the  14*^  1807 /aged  72  years  and  9 
months 

GK-31 

In /memory  of /Garrett  Hulsekamp  /  who  departed  this  life/ 
March  16  1812 /In  the  96^^^  year  of  his  age /In  him  was  the  kind 
Husband  a  tender /and  affectionate  Father  &  sincere  friend /to  the 
Afflicted  and  Distressed  /  Also  /  Mary  /  Daughter  of  G.  Hulsekamp 
/Who  died  June  23  1841 /aged  71  years 

H-1 

In  Memory  of /Thomas  Bowen/who  departed  this  Life /Sep- 
tember 4ti>  1797  /  Aged  48  Years 

rrom  painful  days  and  restless  nights 
Now  death  has  set  me  free 
And 
I  shaU 

H-2 

In  Memory  of /David  Bowen/who  departed  this  Life /August 
29^b  1797 /Aged  15  Years  [4  lines  illegible] 

H-3 

In  Memory  of  /  Mrs.  Penelope  Bowen  /  wife  of  Tho^  B'owen  /  who 
departed  this  Life /April  9'^  1795 /Aged  34  Years  [4  lines] 

H^ 

In  Memory  of/Cap*^  George  Bridges /who  departed  this  Life/ 
October  9^^^  1769 /Aged  55  Years /Also  three  of  his  sons /Alexan- 
der Robert  &  George  /  who  died  in  their  infancy  [12  lines  indistinct] 

H-5 

In /Memory  of /Juliet  Ann  wife  of /William  Rankin /Who  de- 
parted this  life  /  September  19">  1807  /  Aged  21  years 
18  257 


H-6 

John  on  [probably  Wilson] /who  dep  /August 

/  aged  /  Mary  W  [illegible] 

H-7 

Sacred  /  To  the  memory  of  /  John  V  Shade  /  who  died  by  the  acci- 
dental /  discharge  of  a  gun  /  on  the  19^**  May  1823  /  in  the  25  Year 
of  his  age 

(Six  lines  of  verse  undecipherable.) 

Susan,  wife  of  Peter  Shade /and  daughter  of  Margaret  Warner/ 
Died  October  10*^  1829 /in  the  60'^  year  of  her  age /Margaret 
Warner /Died  Feb  25'»i  1826  in  her  80*1^  year /Susan  Shade  Jones 
/Died  August  11*'^  1820 /aged  2  years  and  11  months /Ann  Maria 
aged  16  Months /John,  aged  24  hours /John  Fergusa  aged  11 
months/ Susan,  aged  2  Years  &|  4  Months /John  Colem,  aged  3 
days.  /  Children'  of  Thomas  and  Maria  W.  Jones. 

H-8 
Here  lieth  the  Body  of /John  Simes  Pritehard  /  Son  of  Joseph 
and / Elizabeth    Pritehard / Who    Departed    this    Life/  SOt** 

1793  /  Aged  9  Years.    Also  in  Memory  of  /  Samuel  Coulty  /  who  de- 
parted /  Sep'-  29ti»  1794    Aged  38  years 

H-9 

In /Memory  of /Christy  departed  this  life  January  11,  1812/ 
aged  1  Year,  2  months  and  25  days. 

H-10 
In /memory  of /M"  Rebecca  Christy /wife  of /Robert  Christy/ 
who  departed  this  life  /  October  the  4^"^  1800  /  aged  years  /  Like- 
wise their  three  children  /  William  departed  this  life  March /the 
17th  279  aged  one  year  /  Seven  months  and  13  days  /  Robert  Jun*" 
departed  this  life  March /the  28  1801  aged  one  year /and  10 
months /James  Christy  /  departed  this  life /the  6'**  of  May  1806./ 
16  days. 

H-11 
In  /  memory  of  /  Thomas  Wigmore  /  who  departed  this  life  /  Sepf 
25*'^  1803  /  Aged  41  years  /  Also  of  Susannah  wife  of  /  Thomas  Wig- 
more  /  who  died  Sepf  4''^  1803  /  Aged  22  years 

258 


ln^cti9tioniS  on  Tlombfitont^  anH  l^ault^ 

H-12,  Altar  Tomb 
Here  lieth  the  body  of /Jane /wife  of  Isaac  Hozey/who   de- 
parted this  life  /  the  23  August  1803  /  aged  27  years  &  10  months 

H-13 

In  Memory  of  /  George  Peehin  Son  of  /  Christopher  ^  Christiana 
/Pechin/who  departed  this  Life /March  the  31«t  1778 

H-14 

In  /  memory  of  /  Christiana  Peehin  /  Relict  of  /  Christopher 
Peehin/   who  died  January  7'^*  1835 /in  the  88*^  year  of  her  age 

[This  Stone  has  been  recut  to  read  "  Bom  12.  1747  Died  Jan 

7.  1835] 

H-15 

In  Memory  of  /  Christopher  Peehin  /  who  departed  this  Life  /  Oc- 
tober the  26^1^  1779 /Aged  42  Years/ [4  lines]  [This  stone  has 
been  recut  to  read  "Bom  in  France  1737  Died  October  26.  1779] 

H-16 
/WilUam  /Aged  14/1790  [illegible] 

H-17 

In  memory  /  of  /  Andrew  Spence  /  who  departed  this  life  /  Oc- 
tober 7^^  1805  /  aged  43  years  /  Also  /  Mary  wife  of  Andrew  Spence 
/who  departed  this  life / December  22°"^  1821 /aged  53  years 

H-18 
Robinson    [illegible] 

H-19 
Mary   Robinson 

H-20 

In /memory  of /Rebecca  Connelly  /  wife  of  Isaac  Connelly  /  for- 
merly widow  of  Henry  Robinson  /  She  departed  this  life  /  20*^  day 
of  February  1785  /  aged  39  years 

H-21 

Henry  Robinson 

259 


H-22 
Benj.  Robinson 

H-23 

In  memory  /  of  /  Samuel  Robinson  /  who  departed  this  life  /  the 
20t'»  of  January  1824 /in  the  56'i»  year  of  his  age / And / Judith 
his  Wife /Who  departed  this  life  /  December  12*^'  1841  in  the  75«» 
year  of  her  age. 

H-24 
In  Memory  of  /  Henry  Robinson  /  who  departed  this  Life  /  April 
IS'i^  1776 /Aged       Years 

H-25 

Michel  Long /departed  this  Life  /  December  3''«i  1773 /Aged  38 
Years. 

H-26 
In  Memory  of /Joseph  Son  of /Samuel  and /Ruth  Robinson/ 
who  departed  this /life  Aug  17  /Aged  Months/ 

Weeks 

H-27 
Sacred /To  the  memory  of/M"  Mary  Foot /who  departed  this 
life /the  13*''  of  Feh^  1812 /aged  78  years 

H-28 
In  /  Memory  of  /  George  Gillighan  /  who  departed  this  life  /  Janu- 
ary 22°"^  1818. /aged  63  years  /  Also  /  Mary  Wife  of /George  Gil- 
lighan/who  departed  this  life / February  18'^  1820 /aged  67  years 

H-29 
Sacred  /  to  the  memory  of  /  Two  Sons  and  a  Daughter  of  /  John' 
and  Margaret  Wharton /John  Wharton  Jun'"  /  departed  this  life 
Aug  30  1820 /in  the  20^^^  year  of  his  age /William  Wharton /de- 
parted this  life  Aug  30  1820  /  in  the  14*^*^  year  of  his  age  /  Margaret 
Wharton /departed  this  life  Aug  31.  1820 /in  the  17'»^  year  of  her 
age  [6  lines] 

H-30 
Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Isabella  Price /Relict  of  George 
Price /who  departed  this  life /October  2^  1808 /Aged  70  years  & 
8  days  /  Also  /  Isabella  Price  Davis  /  daughter  of /Andrew  &  Eliza- 
beth Davis /who  departed  this  life /in  August  1799 /Aged  3  years 
&  2  months  /  Also  /  Mary  Davis  /  daughter  of /Andrew  &  Elizabeth 

260 


Jtifictiption^  on  ^omi)0tontfi  anb  I9mltfi 

Davis /who  departed  this  life /in  October  1802 /Aged  1  year  &  2 
months 

H-31 

In /Memory  of /William  Price /Son  of /Andrew  &  Elizabeth 
Davis /died  August  1^'  1816 /aged  21  years  &  11  months /Also/ 
Elizabeth  /  Widow  of  Andrew  Davis /died  May  15ti»  1829 /aged  64 
years  &  5  months 

H-32,  Altar  Tomb 

In  memory  of /James  Moyes/who  departed  this  life/Sepf  25^ 
1833 /in  the  80*^  year  of  his  age /Also /of  Mary  his  wife /who 
departed  this  life /April  11*^  1850 /in  the  96*^  year  of  her  age 

H-33,  Altar  Tomb 
In  Memory  of  Ann /ye  wife  of  John  Moyes/who  Departed  this 
Life  August/ 18'^  1762  in  ye  44  Year /of  Her  Age 

I-l 

Sacred  /  to  /  the  memory  of /Virginia  Elmslie  /  Daughter  of/ 
Louis  and  Susan  Elmslie /Who  departed  this  life /On  the  5th  day 
of  March  A.  D.  1857 /Aged  9  years  2  mos  &  20  days 

1-2 

In /Memory  of /Cathrane  the  wife  of /Thomas  Cave:  who /De- 
parted this  Life  September  /  the  23^  1795  Aged  31  Years /And  three 
months  /  Also  four  of  their  children  /  May  they  rest  in  peace 

1-3 

In /Memory  of /Maria  Bennet/who  died  August  6"^  1825/ 
aged  80  Years 

1-4,  Altar  Tomb 

In  Memory  of /Margaret  Beck /Wife  of /Paul  Beck  Jun'/ 
Died  lot**  April  1797 /Aged  36  Years /This  Vault  also  contains/ 
the  Remains  of /Mary  Goddard/Wife  of  John  Goddard/and/ 
Daughter  of  Paul  &  Margaret  Beck /who  died  7*'*  April  1825/ 
Aged  36  years  and  9  days /Mary  Harvey  Beck /wife  of /Paul 
Beck  JVDied.  Dec  3*  1810 /The  Remains  of /Paul  Beck  Junior/ 
and  of /Mary  Harvey  Beck /were  removed  April  12*^*  1851 /from 
this  Vault  to  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery 

[On  the  North  side]  Mrs.  Susannah  Clayton /died  25''*  January 
1787  /  Aged  45  years 

261 


[On  the  South  side]     William  Currie  Beck /Bom  1796 
Died   1828 /M"-   Richard   Parker /died   9^^   November  1769 /Aged 
38  years 

1-5 

In  /  memory  of  /  M""^  Susan  P  Lammor  /  Consort  of  Daniel  Lam- 
mor/who  departed  this  life/ 31  December  1817 /Aged  52  years  1 
month  &  2  days 

1-8 

In  Memory  / of  / Mary  Gunary/who  departed  this  Life /No- 
vember 16/ 1763 /Aged  28  Years. 

1-7 

Mary  Pidgeon  /  Departed  This  Life /October  1793 /Aged  50 
Years  &  9  Months 

Silent  Tomb  I  lye 

yonder 

Husband  Children  mind 

And  'II  meet  me  in  endless  day. 

1-8 
In /Memory  of /John  Huckel/the  son  of /William  and  Susanna 
/Huckel/Who  departed  this  Life /April  20.  1797 /Aged        Years 
1  month  /  and     Days 

1-9 
In'   Memory / of  / William   Wisdom2*/who   departed   this   Life/ 
August  [rest  illegible] 

I-IO 
In /memory  of  /  departed  this  life/  1800  [rest 

illegible] 

I-ll 
In  Memory  of  /  Catharine  Wife  /  James  Spriggs  /  who  departed 
this  life /January  le'''  1802 /Aged  79  years /and   2  months/ [2 
lines  illegible] 

M'  James  Spriggs /who  departed  this  life /January  lO''^  1806/ 
Aged  60  years  [lines]  [stone  sunk] 

1-12 
Here  Rest  /  in  peace  /  the  mortal  remains  of  /  Margaret  Desilver  / 
who  died  the  15'^^  of  July  1835  /  aged  55  years  2  months  &  15  days  / 


24  William  Wisdom  buried  Aug.  28,  1798. 

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InHctiptionfi  on  7!Lomb0tont0  anti  ^anlt^ 

Also /Robert  Desilver/who  died  September  IS^**  1837 /aged  58 
years  5  months  <Si  4  days  /  Ann  /  Daughter  of  Margaret  /  and  Robert 
Desilver/who  died  February  7'^  1820 /aged  15  years  1  month  & 
23  days 

Tis  Heaven's  high  will  we  must  to  dust  return 
At  'eve  at  noon  day  or  in  the  blooming  morn 
But  small  the  difference  when  the  summons  given 
If  w'ere  prepared  to  tread  the  Courts  of  Heaven. 

1-13 
In  Memory  of  /  Joseph  Pringle  /  who  died  /  Nov*"  12'^*  1790  /  aged 
11  Months 

1-14 

Sacred  /  to  the  memory  of  /  Thomas  Broome  /  who  departed  this 
life  /  January  11.  1818  /  aged  64  years  /  [2  lines  illegible] 

Also /in  memory  of/Letitia  Broome /his  wife /who  departed 
this  life/ September  22'^  1820 /aged  63  years/  [4  lines] 

Also  Hannah  Broom/  daughter  of  /  Tho^  &  Margaret  Broom  /  who 
died  August  29  1828 /aged  50  years 

1-15 
[A  stone  broken  and  illegible.] 

1-16 
In  /  memory  of  /  Catharine  wife  of  /  William  Delavau  /  who  de- 
parted this  life /August  17  1828  aged/ 29  Years  /Also 
of /Catharine  Amanda  /  daughter  of  William  &/ Catharine  De- 
lavau /  was  bom  1828  /  died  Feb  1829  aged  /  7  months 
&  13  days /Also  of /William  Delavau /who  departed  this  life/ 
May  20"^  1832  Aged/ 44  years  6  months /and  16  days 

1-17 
In  Memory  of /Susannah  Kennedy  /  Daughter  of /James  &  Su- 
sannah/Black,   who   departed / this   Life    Ocf   2^   1774 /aged   23 
years. 

1-18 
In   Memory   of /James   Black  /  Departed   this  /July 

/Also /Susan  /Departed  /  1776 

Aged  Years  /  Blessed  are  the  dead  that  die  in  the  Lord. 

263 


1-19 
Sacred /to  the  memory  of /James  Thomson /who  departed  this 
life /April  l«t  1829 /aged  37  years  &  26  days /And /of  his  Brother 
/John  Thomson 

1-20 
In /Memory  of /Jacob    Thomson /who   departed  this   life /Dec 
24*''  1808 /in  the  SO^'^  year  of  his  age / Also / Mary / his  wife  who 
died  July/13ti»  1839  in  the  79  year /of  her  age     [Foot-stone  of 
George  Gillighans  against  this.] 

1-21 
In /memory  of /William  Blair /who  departed  this  life /Novem- 
ber IT*''  1823  /  in  the  57'*'  year  of  his  age  /  And  /  his  widow  /  Sarah 
Blair /who  departed  this  life /June  28*^  1824 /in  the  SS'**  year  of 
her  age  /  also  of  /  Samuel  Blair  /  Son  of  /  William  and  Sarah  Blair  / 
who  departed  this  life  /  December  14*^  1823  /  in  the  44^''  year  of  his 
age 

1-22 
In  Memory  of /Amy  wife  of  Anthony  Lougeay  /  departed  this 
Life  /  September  26^^  1799 /in  the  68  Year  of  her  Age /also  of  her 
children 

1-23 
In /memory  of /Anthony  Lougeay /who  departed  this  life /the 
30  day  of  October  1808 /in  the  SO*''  year  of  his  age 

Farewell  lamented  friend  may  Angels  guide 

Thy  weary  Spirit  to  the  realms  of  rest 

Where  pain  can  never  come  nor  death's  cold  hand 

Chill  the  pure of  celestial  life 

Where  happy  souls  of  life  serene 

Raise  to  their  great  Creator  hymns  of  joy 

Here  we  must  remain  to  mjourn  and 

Perhaps  for  years  the  adverse of  life 

Yet  should  we  suffer  pain  or  bliss  enjoy 
Till  time  shall  lay  us  with  the  silent  dead 
The  sweet  remembrance  of  thy  genuine  worth 
Shall  fill  our  bosoms  with  a  pensive  joy. 

Departed  this  life /March  19ti»  1849/Phebe  Wife  of  Anthony 
Lougeay /in  her  83^  Year 

My  body  I  resign  with  these  in  the  dust  to  sleep 
I  hope  my  soul  with  them  will  with  Jesus  meet. 
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In0ctivtionfi  on  <^omb0tont0  anti  t^aixlt^ 

j-i 

Erected /to  the  memory  of /Mary  Louisa /wife  of  Elias  Marsh/ 
who  departed  this  life /March  IS'**  A.  D.  1839 /aged  41  years  5 
months /and  20  days 

J-2 

In /Memory  of /Nancy  Rushton/who  departed  this  life/ 
August  8*-^  1820 /aged  57  years / Also / Edward  Rushton/who  de- 
parted this  life /June  4*^  1824 /aged  37  years  /  And  /  William 
Rushton/Son  of  Edward /and  Jane  Rushton/who  died  May  4^ 
1818  /  aged  9  months 

J-3 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /M"  Mary  Caskey/who  departed  this 
life /February  5^'^  A  D.  1823 /in  the  53^  year  of  her  age 

The  soul  of  our  Mother  ia  gone 
To  tighten  the  triumph  above 
Exalted  to  Jesus 's  throne 
And  clasped  in  the  arms  of  his  love 

Also  Hannah /Wife  of  Robert  S.  Wood /and  Daughter  of /Rob- 
ert &  Mary  Caskey/who  departed  this  life /June  30^11  1816 /The 
remains  of /M"  Mary  Caskey/were  removed /to  Woodlands  Ceme- 
tery/October 17.  1859 

J-4 

Stephen  Randolph  /  Died  June  the  5t»>  / 1763  /  Aged  23  Years  & 
10  Months. 

J-3 

In /Memory  of /Cornelius  KoUock^"  /  Who  Departed  this /life 
July  1.  1798  /  Aged  37  Years  /  and  3  Months. 

J-0 

Sacred /to  the  memory  of /Hans  Jaeobson/who  departed  thia 
life /February  3^  1810 /aged  67  years 

Farewell  my  wife  and  children  dear 
I  am  not  dead  but  sleeping  here 
My  debt  is  paid 
Prepare  yourselves  to  follow  me 


25  Probably  son  of  Lieutenant  Jacob  Kollock,  Jr.,  Collector  for  ti« 
Port  of  Lewes,  Delaware,  by  his  wife  Mary  Leech,  and  he  who  married. 
May  23,  1789,  Mary  Eogerson.  See  ' '  Genealogy  of  the  Kollock  Family 
of  Sussex  County,  Delaware,  1657-1897,  by  Edwin  Jaquett  Sellers,  Esq. 

265 


3-1 
In    Memory    of/Barbary   wife    of /Peter   Field /who    departed 
this  life/1^'  Sept  1793 /Aged        Years /May  she  rest  in  Peace 

J-S 
In /memory  of /Elizabeth  Parker  Farr  /  youngest  daughter  of/ 
W°»  &  Elizabeth  Farr /who  died  August  9^^  1806 /Aged  1  month  & 
21  days /Also  of /William  Farr /Father  of  the  above /who  died 
August  22nd  1807  /  Aged  33  years 

J-9 

In /memory  of /John  Hook /who  departed  this  life /May  7*'' 
1812  /  aged  67  years  1  month  and  19  days 

Near  where  these  sad  memorials  rise 
The  husband  friend  and  father  Ilea 
A  breast  within  whose  holy  cell 
The  Christian  virtues  lov'd  to  dwell 

Jl-10 
Ann    lann  /  departed    this    life /July    the    29*1'    1778 /Aged    10 
Months  /  and  2  days 

Jr-n 

Here /Lies  the  Body /of /John  Graham /who  departed  this/ 
Life  Aug*  6.  1794 /Aged  15  Years. 

J-12 

In  memory  of /Alice  Eccles/Wife  of /James  Eecles/Who  de- 
parted this  life /October  2^  1806 /Aged  20  years/ [4  lines  illeg- 
ible] 

J-13 

In  Memory  of /John  and  Mary /Son  and  Daughter  of /Henry 
&  Sarah  Butler /John  died  April  27  1769 /Aged  3  years /Mary 
died  May  21.  1765 /Aged  3  Months 

J-14 

In  Memory  /  of  /  Grace  Raworth  /  Who  Departed  this  Life  /  July 
17  Aged/ 23  Years  [illegible] 

J-15 

In  Memory  of/Neomai  O.Neaill  /  Wife  of /Daniel  O.Neaill/ 
who  died  Sep'  17  1769 /Aged  52  Years /also  Ann  his  Daughter/ 
who  died  Novem'  18  1764 /Aged  18  Months 

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In^ctiption^  on  ^omh0tont0  anti  f^mltfi 

J-18 
In  Memory  of  Daniel  O.Neill*/who  departed  this  Life /March 
6''>  1790  Aged  40  ( ?)  Years 

My  flesh  shall  slumber  in  the  ground 

till  the  trumpets 

then  burst 

And  in  my  Saviours  image  rise 

Jr-17 

In   Memory   of /John   Johnson/  Life/         96    [illeg- 

ible] [Church  Registers  record  that  John  Johnson  was  buried  7  June 
1796.] 

J-18,  Altar  Tomb 

lhTs. 

24  Sept  1793 /Elizabeth  Wife  of  I.  Wood  J^late  of  Virginia/ 
She  was  an  affectionate  Wife  /  Mother  and  faithful  Friend 

JV-19 

Sacred /to  the   memory   of /Elizabeth   Reynolds /who   departed 
this  life  /  June  1^  1816  /  in  the  78''»  year  of  her  age 

Corruption  Earth  and  worms 
Shall  but  refine  this  flesh 
Till  my  Redeemer  bid  me  come 
To  put  it  on  afresh 

J-20 
In /Memory  of/Josiah  Cohoon/who  departed  this  Life/NoV 
lOtii  1795  Aged/ 35  Years  (&|  9  Days /Also  4  of  his  Children /My 
flesh  shall  slumber  in  the  Ground  Till  the  joyfull  sound 

K-1 
P.  Evans /a  worthy  man /who  died  December  11   1806 /Aged 
76  years 

K-2 
In  /  memory  of  /  Martha  Nichols  /  wife  of  James  /  who  departed 
this  life  /  November  27  A  D  1823  /  aged        years  /  Also  of  her  hus- 
band/James  Nichols /who    departed   this   life /May   14*'»    A.    D. 
1824 /aged  61  years 

267 


In'  the  History  of  the  First  Troop,  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry, 
published  1917,  there  is  the  following  statement,  which  the  writer 
has  been  unable  to  verify: 

"William  Forrest  (No.  139  on  register)  was  a  son  of  Captain 
William  Forrest,  who  commanded  a  six-gun  battery  at  Trenton.  In 
the  Philadelphia  Minerva  of  July  28,  1798,  are  to  be  found  elegiac 
verses  in  memory  of  the  young  man — the  page  beautifully  printed 
and  ornamented  by  wood  cuts  as  headings  and  tail  pieces.  He  was 
buried  in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard,  Third  Street,  south  of  Walnut 
Street." 


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LIST  OF  VESTRYMEN,  1762-1830;  1835-1876^ 


Abbott,  Edward   1827 

Alexander,    William    1865-1866 

Anderson,  James  B 1873 

B'ankson,  Andrew  1763 

Bartram,  Alexander 1771 ;  1773-74 

Bartram,  George  1769-1771;  1773 

Bates,  John    1783 

Baynton,   John    1763 

Beall,  T.  L 1873 

Beaty,  John   1824-1828 

Beere,  Jonathan    1773-74 

Benezet,   James^    1762-63 

Benezet,  Philips    1762-63 

Benner,  Henry  D.,  M.D 1870-76 

Bickerton,  George  1799-1813 

Biggs,   Thomas    1797-1803 

Bonham,  Ephraim 1762-3 ;  1770-74 

Briggs,  John    1824-27 

Broome,    Thomas    1795-96 

Bullock,    Joseph    1783 

Cadwalader,  Charles  Evert,  M.D 1874-76 

Campbell,   John    1793-95 

Carleton,   Thomas   1762-63 

Carradine,    Thomas    1792-94 

1  The  minutes  of  the  Vestry  from  April  24,  1829,  until  April  12,  1862, 
twenty-three  years,  are  missing.  So  this  list  of  Vestrymen  is  not  com- 
plete as  to  that  period  which  covers  the  rectorships  of  Drs.  Tyng,  Mc- 
Coskrey,  and  May  and  twelve  years  of  Dr.  Eichard  Newton's.  The  min- 
utes, beginning  April  12,  1852,  to  October,  1876,  cover  the  last  ten  years 
of  Dr.  Newton's  incumbency. 

2  Died  in  Bucks  Co.,  Penna.,  May  16,  1794. 

3  Died  Oct.  13,  1791;  buried  Christ  Church  grounds,  Philadelphia. 

269 


Clark,  William  H.,  M.D 1870-76 

Claxton,  John8» 1797-1805;  1808-28 

Claypoole,   George    1770-73 

Claypoole,  James*  1762-69 

Conway,  William    1869-76 

Corry,  William    1795 

Cooke,  Jay*"^   1852-62 

3a  Ship  Chandler  No :  19  Arch  Street. 

4  James  Claypoole,  born  Jan.  22,  1720,  was  ensign  in  Capt.  Charles 
Willing 's  Company  of  Pennsylvania  Associators,  organized  for  protection 
against  the  Indians,  Dec.  29,  1747,  and  High  Sheriff  of  Philadelphia 
County,  1777-1780.  He  married,  first,  Eebecca  White;  second,  Mary 
Chambers.  Of  his  five  children,  all  by  the  second  marriage,  Elizabeth 
Claypoole,  married,  first,  Capt.  Norris  Copper,  second,  Timothy  Matlack 
of  Revolutionary  fame;  Mary  Claypoole  married  James  Peale;  Abraham 
George  Claypoole  (1756-1827),  oflEtcer  in  the  Pennsylvania  Line,  and  an 
original  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  married, 
first,  Elizabeth  Popplewell  Falconer,  second,  Elizabeth  Steele;  a  number 
of  his  descendants  reached  distinction;  David  Chambers  Claypoole, 
Lieutenant  in  the  Pennsylvania  Militia  during  the  Revolution;  member  in 
the  First  Troop  Philadelphia  Cavalry  and  participated  in  the  Whiskey 
Insurrection  and  the  Fries  Rebellion,  was  also  a  leading  journalist, 
being  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Pennsylvania  Paclcet  and  Daily  Ad- 
vertiser, later  Poulson's  Daily  Advertiser  and  now  The  North  American. 
It  was  in  this  paper  that  Washington 's  ' '  Farewell  Address ' '  first  ap- 
peared, the  original  manuscript  in  Washington's  handwriting  having 
been  presented  to  Mr.  Claypoole  by  the  President. 

4a  Jay  Cooke  born  in  Sandusky,  Ohio,  August  10,  1821,  son  of  the  Hon. 
Eleutheros  Cooke,  lawyer  and  member  of  Congress  from  1831  to  1833. 
Cooke  entered  the  banking  house  of  E.  W.  Clark  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  in 
1839,  became  a  partner  in  1842  and  retired  in  January,  1858.  For  three 
years  he  negotiated  railway  securities  on  his  own  account.  While  he  was 
with  the  firm  of  E.  W.  Clark  &  Co.,  they  sold  a  large  portion  of  the 
government  loans  to  carry  on  the  Mexican  War,  and  this  experience  no 
doubt  served  to  prepare  Mr.  Cooke  for  the  greater  work  of  floating  the 
loan  required  for  prosecuting  the  War  for  the  Union.  January  1,  1861, 
Mr.  Cooke  resumed  the  banking  business  with  William  G.  Moorhead,  and 
Hugh  McCulloch,  afterwards  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  having  branch 
houses  in  New  York,  Washington  and  London.  This  continued  until  the 
panic  of  1873  when  the  firm  suspended.  Mr.  Cooke  subsequently  re- 
turned to  business  and  completely  restored  his  fortune.  Mr.  Cooke's 
reputation  and  place  in  history  rests  upon  his  work  of  successfully  negoti- 
ating the  government  war  loans.  At  the  outbreak  of  hostilities  in  1861 
the  national  treasury  was   empty,  and  the  public  credit   so   low  that 

270 


fLifit  ot  l?f0ttgttun 


Cox,  James  1852-56 

Cummings,  William   1837-72 

Curtis,  John  H 1827-28 

Cuthbert,  Thomas^ 1763 

Darlington,  Joseph  G 1867 

Davies,  Samuel  N 1852-55 

it  could  only  borrow  money  at  the  rate  of  twelve  per  cent,  per  an- 
num. The  enormous  demands  of  the  war  immediately  dwarfed  into 
insignificance  all  previous  American  experiences,  and  all  ordinary  in- 
strumentalities in  the  way  of  raising  money.  The  needs  of  the  treasury 
for  military  erpenditure  speedily  reached  one  million  dollars  daily,  and 
before  the  end  came,  with  an  army  of  a  million  men  in  the  field,  the 
demand  reached  the  colossal  volume  of  three  million  dollars  every  twenty- 
four  hours.  Each  successive  Secretary  of  the  Treasury — Chase,  Fessenden, 
McCulloeh — first  exhausted  all  known  means  for  selling  the  war  loans 
directly  by  the  government  and  through  the  cooperation  of  the  national 
banking  system  which  had  been  devised  largely  as  an  aid  to  the  govern- 
ment finances;  but  each  in  succession  was  compelled  by  failure  to  call 
Mr.  Cooke  to  his  side,  and  to  him,  as  sole  fiscal  agent  of  the  government, 
was  intrusted  the  direct  responsibility  of  providing  the  money  for  carry- 
ing forward  to  a  victorious  issue  the  then  greatest  war  of  history.  All 
competent  writers  on  the  War  for  the  Union,  both  American  and  foreign, 
agree  that  the  signal  and  sustained  ability  with  which  the  financial 
credit  of  the  nation  was  built  up  and  maintained  in  the  midst  of  the 
war,  and  with  which  the  money-raising  power  of  the  people  was  stimu- 
lated, guided,  and  upheld,  was  not  second  as  a  factor  in  military  success 
to  the  skill  of  generals  and  the  courage  of  troops  in  the  field.  General 
Grant  expressed  this  common  conviction  when,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  he 
sent  from  City  Point  to  Mr.  Cooke,  with  his  thanks,  the  assurance  that  to 
his  efforts  the  nation  was  largely  indebted  for  the  means  that  had  rendered 
military  success  possible.  The  loans  negotiated  by  Mr.  Cooke,  chiefly 
through  an  enthusiastic,  confident,  persistent  and  skilful  appeal  to  the 
patriotism  of  the  people,  reached  an  aggregate  of  two  thousand  million 
dollars,  and  the  compensation  for  this  service,  an  average  of  three-eighths 
of  one  per  cent.,  out  of  which  came  all  expenses  and  commissions  to  sub- 
agents,  left  to  the  fiscal  agent  as  a  reward  little  besides  the  prestige  and 
satisfaction  of  a  great  success  in  support  of  a  noble  cause. 

5  Thomas  Cuthbert,  born  in  England,  1713,  died  in  Philadelphia  Jan. 
11,  1781,  and  interred  in  Christ  Church  grounds,  was  a  member  of  the 
Philadelphia  Committee  of  Correspondence  in  1775  and  a  delegate  to  the 
Provincial  Convention  of  January,  1775;  later  a  vestryman  of  Christ 
Church.  He  married  May  19,  1744,  Ann,  daughter  of  Anthony  and 
Elizabeth  Wilkinson,  and  had  issue,  through  whom  he  became  the  ancestor 
of  many  eminent  Philadelphians, 

271 


^mov]f  of  fet  paurj*  (Cjpiieicopal  C^utcS 


Deacon,  Gilbert   1764r-70 

Delavau,  Joseph   1795-99 

Dougherty,  James  1783 

Dowers,  John 1794r-99;  1806-7 

Doz,  Andrew 1762-64,  1783 

Duffield,  Abraham 1799-1800 

Dunlap,  William   1764-66 

Dupuy,  Daniel«  1764-7;  1771 

Durborow,  C.  B 1852-61 

Emes,   Worsley7    1792-1800 

Emory,  Charles   1856-59 

Farr,  James  M 1860-64 

Farr,  John  1824-28 

Farr,  William  A 1871-2;  1874r-76 

Fearon,  Joseph   1800-1809 

Fenton,   Eleazer    1852-1876 

Fitzgerald,   Robert    1805 

Fitzrandolph,  Isaac   1795-98;  1800-3 

Fleeson,  Plunket 1762-69 ;  1773-74,  1783 

Ford,   Philip    1874-76 

Greorge,  John  D 1827-31 

George,  John  D 1835-63 

George,  R.  S.  H 1852-69 

Glentworth,  George  1774;  1783 

Glentworth,  Peter  Sonmans  1793 

Glentworth,  Plunket  Fleeson  1792;  1801-19 

Godfrey,  John  W 1799-1802 

Goodman,  Walter   1762-3 

Goodwin,  George 1764-74;  1783;  1792-4 

Gowen,  James'^*   1828 

6  Son  of  Dr.  John  Ihipuy,  was  a  noted  gold  and  silversmith ;  died  at  his 
residence  "Clover  Hill,"  near  Gray's  Ferry,  Aug.  30,  1807,  aged  eighty- 
eight  years,  four  months;  buried  in  Christ  Church  grounds. 

7  Captain  of  Pennsylvania  Artillery,  Continental  Line,  and  original 
member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

7a  James  Gowen  was  a  grocer  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Third  and 
Dock  Streets  in  1823  and  the  site  of  his  store  between  the  Philadelphia 
Exchange  and  Dock  Street,  still  remains.  Later  he  purchased  the  farm  of 
Chief  Justice  William  Allen  at  Mt.  Airy.  He  had  two  sons,  both  distin- 
guished members  of  the  Philadelphia  Bar.  Franklin  B.  Gowen,  born 
February  9,  1836,  died  December  14,  1889,  who  was  elected  President  of 
the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Railroad  Company  in  1870,  which  position  he 

272 


%i0t  ot  i^t0tt^mm 


Graham,   Thomas    1871-6 

Graham,   William    1783 

Green,  Edward  A 1868 

Groves,  John   1803^ 

Gurling,   Abram    1799-1800 

Hall,  David 1772-74 

Hall,  PaiTy    1793 

Holland,  Nathaniel  1822;  1824-31 

Hollingsworth,  Heniy  1820;  1822-27 

Hollingsworth,  Levi*   1792,  1794;  1801-19 

Holman,  Andrew  Jackson   1868-76 

Holson,   Charles    1873 

Hook,  John    1796-1809 

held  until  he  resigned  in  1884.  He  was  not  only  a  lawyer  of  great  ability, 
but  as  a  financier  and  railroad  manager,  Mr.  Gowen  stands  preeminent 
among  his  cotemporaries.  He  destroyed  the  Molly  Maguires  in  the 
Schuylkill  County  coal  region  in  1876.  He  also  took  a  prominent  part  in 
and  helped  to  form  the  Pennsylvania  Constitution  of  1872.  His  brother, 
James  Gowen,  was  among  the  leaders  of  the  Philadelphia  Bar  for  many 
years,  and  was  regarded  as  an  authority  upon  corporation  law.  His  son, 
Francis  I.  Gowen,  General  Counsel  of  the  Pennsylvania  Kailroad  Com- 
pany, ably  maintains  the  reputation  of  his  family  at  the  Philadelphia 
Bar  today. 

8  Levi  Hollingsworth,  son  of  Judge  Zebulon  Hollingsworth,  of  Cecil 
County,  Md.,  by  his  first  wife,  Ann  Mauldin,  was  born  at  Elkton,  Nov. 
29,  1739.  In  or  about  1760,  he  established  himself  in  Philadelphia,  where 
he  died  Mar.  24,  1824,  having  become  not  only  a  successful  merchant 
but  an  aggressive  man  of  affairs;  was  a  founder  and  later  first  quarter- 
master of  the  First  Troop  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry,  a  member  of  the 
Schuylkill  Fishing  Company  and  of  the  Gloucester  Fox  Hunting  Club, 
of  notable  usefulness  during  the  yellow  fever  epidemic  of  1793,  and  one 
of  the  leaders  of  the  Federal  party.  He  married  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Stephen  PaschaU  and  had  eight  children,  of  whom  but  three  lived  to 
maturity  and  marriage,  viz.,  PaschaU  Hollingsworth,  who  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  James  Wilson,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence; 
Mary  Hollingsworth,  who  became  the  wife  of  Israel  Wistar  Morris  and 
has  many  descendants  who  have  been  and  are  leaders  in  their  respective 
fields  of  usefulness;  Henry  Hollingsworth,  the  St.  Paul's  vestryman,  suc- 
cessful merchant  and  first  treasurer  of  the  Western  Savings  Fund, 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joshua  Humphreys,  the  famous  Philadelphia 
shipbuilder  and  the  actual  father  of  the  American  navy;  among  his 
descendants  may  be  mentioned  the  Hon.  Hampton  Lawrence  Carson 
of  Philadelphia,  formerly  Attorney  General  of  Pennsylvania. 

19  273 


Howard,  John  1764-1771 

Jackson,   William    1774 

Johnson,  John   1796-98 

Johnson,  Richard 1799-1803;  1813-16 

Johnson,  Richard  1818-22 ;  1825 ;  1827-28 

Jones,  Blathwaite    1763-71 

Josiah,  Emanuel   1764^74 

Keble,  John  1783;  1792-94,  1803 

Keen,  Mathias  Valentine 1795-1804 

Kennedy,  William 1869-72;  1874r-76 

Kerr,  Walter   1813-16 

Kimmey,  Henry  M 1852-65 

King,  James,  Jr 1814-18 

King,  Robert  Pennick" 1852-53 ;  1868 

Kirkham,  Charles   1794-1807 

Kirkham,   William    1820-24 

Knowles,   John    1762-64 

Lane,  William  1797-1800 

Latimer,  Thomas 1863-76 

Leech,   Thomas    1764^74 

Leevers,    Robert    1769-70 

9  Eobert  Penniek  King,  born  in  Philadelphia,  April  2,  1805,  died  there 
in  October,  1867,  his  funeral  sermon  being  preached  in  St.  Paul 's  Churcli, 
Sunday  evening,  October  18,  of  that  year,  by  the  Eev.  E.  Heber  Newton. 
Mr.  King  was  the  senior  partner  of  the  firm  of  King  and  Baird,  English 
and  German  Book  and  Job  Printers,  No.  9  Sansom  Street.  The  firm 
possessed  rare  facilities  for  printing  in  foreign  languages  and  issued  a 
hymn  book  in  Cherokee,  numerous  works  in  Swedish,  some  in  Norwegian, 
a  stereotyped  Episcopal  prayer  book  in  the  Grebo  language  and  a  dic- 
tionary of  the  Grebo  dialects.  It  also  published  numberless  almanacs, 
the  Banner  of  the  Cross,  a  weekly  Episcopal  newspaper,  the  Legal  In- 
telligencer and  Episcopal  Prayer  Books,  "at  lower  prices  than  they  can 
be  purchased  elsewhere."  At  the  time  of  his  decease  Mr.  King  was 
president  of  the  Philadelphia  Fire  Insurance  Company,  the  Sullivan 
County  Land  Company,  the  N  orris  Park  Gold  Mining  Company  of  Colo- 
rado, the  board  of  managers  of  the  Mt.  Moriah  Cemetery  Association, 
a  director  in  the  Union  Pacific  Eailroad  Company,  was  Past  Master  of 
Franklin  Lodge,  No.  134,  and  for  eighteen  years  a  member  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Pennsylvania.  Daniel  J.  King  was 
also  a  member  of  the  firm.  His  son,  Leroy  N.  King,  is  a  well  known  mem- 
ber of  the  Philadelphia  bar. 

274 


fli0t  of  W0ttismtn 


Lohra,  Johiii"    1820-25 

Loper,  Richard  Fanning   1856-68  I 

MeClenaehan,  Blair 1774,  1783.i 

Masden,  Richard   1826 

Matthews,  James,  Jr 1810-12 

Matthews,  John   1795-1828 

Moore,   John    1795-1807 

Moyes,  James 1793^;  1801;  1823-28 

Moyes,  John  1764-69,  1772 

Musgrave,  James  1805-15 

Nelson,  George    1783 ;  1792-95 

Norman,  Joseph 1812,  1816,  1818,  1820 

North,  Richard   1793-98,  1805-13,  1817-28 

Odenheimer,  John  W.^^    1827-31 

Ord,  George   1792 

Ord,  Johniia 1762-3,  1783 

Palmer,  John   1762-71,  1773-4 

Pahner,  John  Bankson  1805-13,  1815,  1818 

Palmer,  Thomas   1804-5,  1807-18 

Parker,   Matthew    1792-3 

Paul,  William    1797-8 

Payne,   James    1764-70 

Pechin,   Christopher   1771-74 

Pechin,  John 1814-22,  1824-28 

Penrose,   Samuel    1783 

Perry,    James    1873 

Phile,  John  1814-19 

Pidgeon,  David   1825-26 

Potter,  George  W 1866-69 

10  John  Lohra,  born  Philadelphia,  Nov.  26,  1759 ;  died  at  his  home, 
Spruce  Street  above  Sixth  Street,  222  old  number,  Aug.  27,  1834,  was  a 
Eevolutionary  soklier  in  Philadelphia  Company  of  Foot,  under  Capt. 
Ezekiel  Letts,  1777,  and  sTibsequently  many  years  an  iron  merchant,  of 
the  firm  Lohra  and  Carlisle;  a  pew  holder  at  St.  Paul's  from  about 
1800;  married  Sept.  2,  1790,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Knorr;  of  his 
children  Catharine  Souclc  Lohra,  married  James  L.  Franeine  and  Sarah 
Ann  Lohra,  married  Thomas  Hardy  AUen. 

11  John  W.  Odenheimer,  father  of  the  Et.  Kev.  William  Henry  Oden- 
heimer, D.D.,  bishop  of  New  Jersey. 

iia  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  Mulberry  Ward  of  City  of  Philadelphia 
1777.  Took  the  oath  of  Allegiance  of  Francis  Hopkinson.  Scharf  & 
Westcott.     Vol.  I,  p.  338. 

275 


^igftotg  of  ^t  paur0  Cpisicopal  Cgutcf) 

Poyntell,   William^^    -Ljg^ 

Pullin,    Robert    1826-27 

RandoliDb,   Benjamin    1764-67 

Randolph,  Isaac   1794 

Read,  John 1764^67,  1769 

Renshaw,  Richard  1770-74,  1783,  1792-4 

Renshaw,  Richard,  Jr.^^   1820-31 

Rhinehard,   Martin    1865 

Riley,  John    1804-10 

Robbins,  John   1808-18 

Robbing,  Samuel,  Jr 1818-22 

Robinson,  Daniel    1768-71 

Robinson,  Samuel 1796-1805,  1821-23 

Robinson,  William   1828 

Ross,  John  1762-3,  1774 

Rowley,  Edward 1799,  1818-19 

Sadler,  Matthias    1792-94 

Savidge,  John  1796 

Shea,  Walter   1762-63 

Shute,  William 1762-3,  1770-1,  1773-74 

Smethurst,    Richard    1866 

Smith,  William  1764-66,  1768 

Standley,  William"  1765-67,  1770,  1774 

Stanley,  Norris 1824-26,  1828-1847 

Stanley,  William  1766-69,  1771,  1773 

Stevenson,  Cornelius  1816-1820,  1822 

12  William  Poyntell,  Esq.,  born  Oxfordshire,  England,  Mar.  23,  1756, 
died  Sept.  10,  1811,  was  at  his  death,  vestryman  of  the  United  Churches 
of  Christ  Church  and  St.  Peter's,  and  was  buried  in  the  churchyard  of 
the  latter.  He  was  * '  distinguished  as  an  honorable  and  useful  citizen 
of  Philadelphia  for  more  than  forty  years. ' ' 

13  Richard  Renshaw,  Jr.,  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  and  notary  public 
and  resided  302  South  Second  Street,  1823. 

14  William  Standley  in  his  will  of  June  11,  1807,  described  himself  as 
far  advanced  in  years,  and  made  bequests  to  grandchildren,  William, 
Richard  and  Hugh,  children  of  his  late  son,  Richard  Standley,  deceased ; 
to  Maria  and  Sarah,  children  of  Michael  and  Margaret  Slyhoof;  to 
daughter  Sarah  Twells,  and  to  grandchildren  Godfrey  and  Elizabeth 
Twells,  and  friends,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Pilmore  and  Lawrence  Seckle.  He 
married  at  Christ  Church,  Sept.  17,  1748,  Elizabeth  Fulton,  who  died 
Feby.  10,  1793.  He  died  Aug.  9,  1807,  in  his  eighty-second  year  and  was 
buried  in  Christ  Church  grounds. 

276 


Eigit  ot  m^tt^mtn 


Stevenson,   James    1762 

Stevenson,  William   1792-96,  1801-04 

Stewart,  Aaron   1795-98 

Stewart,  Samuel  M 1827-28 

Stiles,  Thomas  T 1814-5,  1817-25,  1828 

Stockton,   Charles    1826 

Stoddard,  John  1806-10 

Stotesbury,   Arthur    1810-21 

Stotesbury,  Richard  G.^^    1840-76 

Stretch,  Isaac    1764-68 

Sturgis,  Peter 1808-09 

Swanwick,   John^e    1792-93 

Taylor,  James  N .1800-02,  1804 

Thackara,  Samuel  1819-27 

Thomas,   John   W.^^    1836-70 

isEichard  G.  Stotesbury,  father  of  James  M.  Stotesbury  of  the 
Stotesbury  and  Leeds  Kubber  Company  of  Chester,  Penna.,  and  of  Mary 
Ann  Stotesbury,  who  married  Lewis  Crozer  of  Uplands,  Delaware 
County,  Pennsylvania.    See  also  Appendix  F,  pages  219,  220. 

16 ' '  John  Swanwick,  late  member  of  Congress,  was  buried  at  St.  Peter 's 
Church,  Aug.  2,  1798,"  records  Jacob  Hiltzheimer.  He  was  aged  fifty- 
eight  years  and  had  for  a  long  time  been  the  junior  partner  of  Willing, 
Morris  and  Swanwick, 

17  George  Clifford  Thomas,  banker,  philanthropist  and  churchman, 
born  October  28,  1839,  died  April  21,  1909,  was  a  vestryman  in  fact,  for 
many  years,  if  not  in  name.  His  father,  John  W.  Thomas,  one  of  Phila- 
delphia's most  prominent  merchants,  was  a  vestryman  over  thirty-six 
years,  and  for  twenty  years  accounting  warden  of  Old  St.  Paul's.  The 
son  was  a  graduate  of  the  Episcopal  Academy.  He  commenced  business 
with  his  father,  was  subsequently  employed  by  Jay  Cooke  &  Company, 
and  in  1862  became  a  member  of  that  firm. 

In  1863,  and  throughout  the  period  of  the  Civil  War,  when  the  great 
financial  operations  of  the  government  were  conducted  by  the  firm,  George 
C.  Thomas  was  one  of  its  active  partners.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in 
the  work  accomplished  by  the  firm,  which  strengthened  the  finances  of 
the  government  so  that  it  was  enabled  to  carry  on  with  success  a  war 
which  cost  from  $300,000,000  to  $800,000,000  a  year.  The  great  part 
which  Jay  Cooke  &  Co.  took  in  popularizing  the  government  loans  has 
never  been  fully  told.  Mr.  Thomas  was  actively  instrumental  with  Mr. 
Cooke  in  promoting  and  carrying  on  the  largest  and  most  successful 
money  operations  that  any  government  had  ever  undertaken  to  that  time. 

Upon  the  failure  of  the  firm  of  Jay  Cooke  &  Co.  in  September,  1873, 
Mr.    Thomas   for   several   months  was   compelled  to   give  his   personal 

277 


l^ijStorp  of  &t  paurgi  d^pisicopal  CfjurcS 

Thomson,  Edward  1806-13 

Thomson,  Jacob    1805-00 


attention  to  the  work  of  straightening  out  the  firm 's  affairs.  Undaunted 
by  his  experience,  he  began  business  anew  before  the  close  of  the  same 
year.  With  the  late  Joseph  M.  Shoemaker,  he  established  the  firm  of 
Thomas  &  Shoemaker,  which  in  a  few  years  gained  influential  clientage. 

It  was  not  long  before  Mr.  Thomas  repaired  his  fortune  in  his  new 
business,  and  in  1883  he  was  invited  by  Anthony  J.  Drexel  to  become 
a  partner  in  his  firm.  Since  that  time  there  have  been  few  large  finan- 
cial transactions  in  this  city  in  which  Mr.  Thomas  has  not  figured.  He 
was  concerned  in  the  Beading  and  Northern  Pacific  reorganizations  and 
all  the  big  operations  of  the  Drexel  and  Morgan  firms  before  his  retire- 
ment. For  twenty-one  years  he  was  among  the  first  of  Philadelphia's 
international  bankers.  Because  of  ill  health  he  retired  from  business 
in  January,  1905. 

He  married  Miss  Ada  E.  Moorhead,  daughter  of  J.  Barlow  Moorhead, 
a  prominent  ironmaster,  who,  since  her  husband's  death,  has  without 
ostentation  helped  in  a  substantial  manner  the  church,  as  well  as  the 
many  religious  activities  with  which  Mr.  Thomas  was  connected.  Por 
many  years  Mr.  Thomas  was  superintendent  of  the  Holy  Apostles  Mission. 
His  private  library  included  many  rare  books,  among  them  almost  every 
known  early  rare  edition  of  the  Bible.  One  is  the  volume  with  which 
the  English  Bible  began  its  history.  It  is  the  first  complete  English 
Bible,  printed  at  Antwerp  in  1535,  by  Miles  Coverdale,  and  with  it  is 
Tyndale's  New  Testament,  printed  at  Worms,  and  the  first  sheets  of  an 
issue  of  the  Bible  authorized  by  Thomas  Cromwell,  and  printed  in  Paris. 
Also  the  first  Bible  printed  in  America,  the  Eliot  Indian  Bible,  with  the 
New  Testament.  This  is  the  Ives  copy,  and  one  of  the  very  few  perfect 
ones  in  existence.  Near  this  rarity  is  the  primer  of  Henry  VIII,  the 
Appleton  copy;  Queen  Elizabeth's  prayer-book  and  the  later  primer, 
and  a  prayer-book  used  by  Martha  Washington,  and  having  on  its  fly- 
leaf an  inscription  from  her  declaring  this.  The  famous  Mark  Baskett 
Bible,  over  which  scholars  disputed  for  years,  is  also  in  the  Thomas 
library. 

His  collection  of  autographs  is  also  notable.  It  includes  the  original 
libretto  of  Die  Meistersinger,  penned  in  the  small,  cramped  hand  of 
Eichard  Wagner.  It  also  includes  the  major  part  of  the  autographs  of 
the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  the  originals  of  Grant's 
dispatches  announcing  Lee's  surrender,  and  the  letters  of  Lincoln  to 
General  Hooker.  These  autographs  are  in  volumes,  carefully  classified, 
and  include  those  from  the  hands  of  every  sovereign  of  England.  All 
the  sovereigns  of  France  are  represented,  as  well  as  many  of  the  world's 
famous  musicians  and  artists,  and  many  men  of  letters.  An  expense 
account  of  Marie  Antoinette  challenges  a  piquant  interest,  since  its  items 

278 


%i0t  ot  i^t&tt^nxtn 


Thompson,   Richard    1792-96 

Towers,  Robert   1762-73 

Towne,    Benjamin    1783 

Toy,   John    1818-21 

Turner,  John  1810-11,  1818,  1820,  1822 

Turner,  Joseph 1772-73,  1783 

Twells,    Godfreyis 1794-99 

Vallance,  John   1804-15,  1819-20 

Van  Dusen,  Joseph  B 1852-54 

Wallace,  William    1828 

Weaver,  Matthew   1795-1807 

West,  Collins  1862-1876 

West,  Thomas   1770 

Wharton,  John  1816-20,  1822-26 

are  most  amazingly  frank  and  equally  as  extravagant.  In  the  autographs 
of  musicians  are  those  of  Beethoven,  Gluek,  Handel,  Hayden,  Wagner, 
Jenny  Lind,  Schubert  and  Mozart. 

The  patriotic  appeal  is  in  the  twelve  letters  of  George  Washington, 
among  which  is  his  letter  to  Clinton  announcing  the  Treaty  of  Peace, 
and  the  letters  of  William  Penn,  which  fully  describe  the  last  hours  of 
Charles  II,  and  Penn's  dealings  with  the  Indians.  Another  document  of 
great  historical  import  is  Eobert  E.  Lee's  letter  surrendering  his  com- 
mission in  the  Army  of  the  United  States  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War.  Of  similar  appeal  is  the  letter  written  by  Jefferson  Davis,  as 
Secretary  of  War,  promoting  U.  S.  Grant  to  the  rank  of  captain  in  the 
Fourth  United  States  Infantry,  August  9,  1853. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Thomas  was  a  member  of  the  Stock 
Exchange,  director  of  the  Farmers'  and  Mechanics'  National  Bank,  and 
the  Pennsylvania  Company  for  Insurances  on  Lives  and  Granting  An- 
nuities, manager  of  the  Philadelphia  Saving  Fund  Society  and  active  in 
various  other  financial  institutions.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Union 
League,  Art,  Corinthian  Yacht,  Merion  Cricket,  Germantown  Cricket, 
Philadelphia  County,  Eacquet  and  Church  clubs. 

18  Godfrey  Twells,  of  Eoyston,  Cambridgeshire,  England,  died  at 
Philadelphia,  Jan.  19,  1802,  in  fifty-ninth  year.  His  wife,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  William  Standley,  born  Apr.  23,  1752  died  July  13,  1829, 
and  was  buried  beside  him  in  Christ  Church  grounds.  A  member  of  the 
firm  of  Hare  and  Twells,  brewers  at  Callowhill  and  New  Market  Streets, 
both  he  and  his  partner,  Eobert  Hare,  founder  of  the  family  of  his 
surname  in  Philadelphia,  were  early  members  of  the  First  Troop,  Phila- 
delphia City  Cavalry.  The  children  who  survived  him  were:  Elizabeth, 
who  married  Dr.  Edward  Lowber,  Godfrey,  Standley,  Edward,  who 
married  Sarah  Wharton   Chancellor,  and  Eichard. 

279 


^i<itotif  of  &t  paur-s  (Cpijsfcopal  CJutcS 


White,   John    1821-22 

White,  Joseph   1824^26 

Wilkinson,  John    1768-71 

Williams,  John  1764-67,  1769 

Wilmer,  Lambert    1772-73 

Wiltberger,  Christian 1800-20,  1822,  1828 

Wood,  John 1767-74,  1792-93 

Wood,  Thomas    1811-13 

Wright,  Thomas 1796-98,  1802-04,  1808-09 

Young,  John  1762-74,  1783 

Young,  John,  Jr 1771-74 

Young,   Samuel    1794-95 

Young,  Thomas  1822-26 


280 


INDEX  TO  SUBJECTS. 


Abraham,    Father,    his    Almanack,      Alexander,  Eicbardj  notice  of,  119, 


ref.  to,  78 
Acrelius,       "History       of       New 

Sweden,"  ref.  to,  27 
Act,   an,  incorporating  St.   Paul's 

Church,    198    seq. 
Adams,  John,  his  diary,  ref.  to,  29 
John,  mention  of,  118 
John,  letter  to  wife^  94 
Adamson,  Rev.  Wm.  S.,  rectorship 
of  176,  177 
Rev.  Wm.,  portrait  of,  facing 
p.  176 
Advent    Church,    5th    and   Button- 
wood,  mentioned,  147 
Agnew,   Daniel,   on   Sacredne?s   of 

Burial  Grounds,  13-15 
Agreement,  Articles  of,  194  seq. 
Articles  of,   full   text   of.  Ap- 
pendix A,  194  seq. 
Article    of,   Signers   to,   29-34 
by  whom  prepared,  47 
ref.  to,  63,  87 
Alexander,  Jas.,  mention  of,  3,  149 
James,  account  of,  254,  255 
Rachel  Craven,  notice  of,  254 
AVm.,  notice  of,  254 
Richard,  notice  of,  254 
John  C,  notice  of  254 
Emily    Richardet,    notice     of, 

254 
Rachael  Francis,  note  on,  149 
Richard,  mention  of,  3 


149,   163 
Richard,  portrait  of,  facing  p, 

149 
Wm.,  in  re  prayer  meetings  at 

St.  Paul's,  147 
Richard  J.,  notice  of,  149 
Alexandria    Theological   Seminary, 

mentioned,  143 
Alkin,  Rev.,  his  charity  sermon  at 

St.  Paul's,  85 
Rev.,      preaches      at      Christ 

Church  and  St.  Peters,  85 
Allen,  Rev.  Benjamin,  Jr.,  note  on, 

120 
Rev.  Benjamin,  rectorship  of, 

125-134 
Rev.    Benjamin,    portrait    of, 

facing  p.   125 
Rev.     Benjamin,    his    Sunday 

school  and  missionary  work, 

129 
Rev.       Benjamin,       appointed 

Public  School  director,   129 
Rev.  Benjamin,  becomes  Mas- 
ter Mason,  131 
Rev.     Benjamin,     publications 

of,   132,   133 
Rev.   Thos.    G.,   note   on,   128, 

131 
Rev.    Thos.    G.,    "Memoir    of 

the  Rev.  Benjamin  Allen," 

ref.  to,  131 


281 


Snliex  to  ^ubiectiS. 


Allen,  Harriet  Swift,  note  on,  133 
Thos.  Hardy,  note  on,  275 
Sarah    Ann    Lohra,    note    on, 

275 
Wm.,  note  on,  272 
Allison,  Joseph,  opinion  in  re  re- 
moval ot  interred,  10 
All   Saints',    Lower   Dublin,    men- 
tion, 115,  121 
Saints ',     PhiladelpMa,     men- 
tioned, 177 
Souls',  New  York,  mentioned, 
163 
America,  Patriotic  Order  Sons  of, 

ref.  to,  22 
American  Church  Missionary  Soc, 
mentioned,  135 
Church,     Geneva,     mentioned, 

176 
Episcopal    Church,    formation 
of,  in  relation  to  St.  Paul's, 
63 
Episcopal   Church,  liturgy   of, 

ref.  to,  181 
Philosophical  Soc,  mentioned, 

199 
Philosophical  Society,  ref.  to, 

30,  33,  101,  159 
Sunday-School     Union,     men- 
tioned,   130,    131.   139,   166, 
171 
American  Law  Times,  ref.  to,  12 
Anderson,   "Hist,    of   the   English 
Church    in    the    Colonies," 
ref.  to,  57 
Anderson 's     ' '  Colonial     Church, ' ' 

ref.  to,  28 
Andre,    Major,    his    "Cowchase, " 

ref.  to,  93 
Apostles'  preaching,  ref.  to,  85 
Appleton's   "Cyclopaedia   of   Am. 

Biog.,"  ref.  to,  97,  113 
Asbury,  Eev.  Francis,  mention  of, 
56,  114 
Eev.   Francis,   opinion   of,   on 
Dr.  Magaw,  98 


Ascension,  Church  of  the,  ref.  to, 
286 
Church  of  the,  location  of,  3 
Church  of  the,  Brooklyn,  men- 
tioned, 179 
Assembly,   Acts   of,   in   re   Burial 
Grounds,  12,  13 
Act  of,  as  to  Ee-interment,  17, 

18,  189 
Act  of,  as  to  State  House  title, 

29,  30 
of   Pa.,   ref.    to,    30,    36,    198 
seq.,  40,  67 
"Associated   Battery,"    where   lo- 
cated, 40 
Associators,   Second    Company    of, 
mentioned,  239 
Capt.   Chas.   Willing 's   Co.   of 
Penna.,  mentioned,  270 
Atonement  Church,  mentioned,  147, 

158,  159,  160,  168 
Autographs,     notable,     in     the 
Thomas  Collection,  278,  279 
Ayres,     "Life    of    Br.    John    P. 
Muhlenberg,"  ref.  to,  95 

Bainbridge,    Commodore,    mention 
of,    231 

Baker,  Col".  John,  mention  of,  111 
"Wm.  S.,  notice  of,  62 
Eliza  D.,  notice  of,  62 

Bankson,   Andrew,   account   of,   32 
Jacob,  notice  of,  32 
Sarah  AUen,  notice  of,  32 
John,  notice  of,  32 
John   P.,    note    on,    122,    164, 
166,   170 

Baptists,  ref.  to,  50,  57,  84 

Barnes,  Eev.  Dr.  Albert,  mention 
of,  60 

Barratt,  Jas.,  Jr.,  account  of,  220 
Mary  Irvine,  account  of,  220 
Norris     Stanley,     notice     of, 

255,  286 
James,  note  on,  255 
Mary  Irvine,  mention  of,  4 


282 


J^i&totv  ot  §)t  ^auV0  CEpigicopal  Ci^utcl, 


Barratt,  Xorris  Stanley,  ancestors 
of,  ref.  to,  98 
Xorris     Stanley,     ' '  Barratt 's 

Chapel,"  ref.  to,  98 
Philip,  notice  of,  27 
Philip,  Jr.,  notice  of,  27 
Barratt 's  Chapel,  mention  of,  28, 
114,  115,  220 
Chapel,    Dr.    Magaw    adminis- 
ters sacraments  there,  98 
Barratt-Sachse,    ' '  Freemasonry    in 
Pennsylvania,"  ref.   to,   90, 
93,  105,  110 
Barrett,   Capt.   Eiehard,   his   Com- 
pany of  Guards,  mentioned, 
3i  " 
Capt.  Richard,  ref.  to,  254 
Barry,     Commodore,     mention     of, 

231 
Bates.  John,  mention  of,  36 
Baynton,  John,  account  of,  30 
John,  mention  of,  42,  101 
John,  Jr.,  note  on,  30 
Peter,  note  on,  30 
Beach,  Edmund,  notice  of,  33,  34 
Beardsley's    "Life   of   Seabury," 

ref.  to,   56 
Beck,  Paul,  mention  of,  101 

Paul,  notice  of,  158 
Bedell,   Rev.   Dr.    Gregory   T.,  no- 
tice of,  127,  129,  131,  139 
Beethoven,   autograph   of,   ref.   to, 

279 
Bell,  Robert,  printing  house  of,  ref. 

to,  101 
Bend,    Rev.    Joseph,    mention    of, 

112 
Benezet,  Daniel,  note  on,  124 

Elizabeth  Xorth,  note  on,  124 
Major  Jas.,  account  of,  31 
Ann  HaseU,  notice  of,  31 
Capt.  Samuel,  note  on,  31 
James,  note  on,  269 
Philip,  note  on,  269 
Benson,  Rev,  Dr.  Louis  P.,  "The 
English  Hymn,  Its  Develop- 


ment and  use  in  "Worship," 

ref.  to,  140 
Bergen    Xeck   expedition,    ref.   to, 

93 
Berkeley     Divinity     School,     men- 
tioned, 179 
Bible,  early  and  rare  editions  of, 

referred  to,  278 
Bniingsport,    fortifications    at,    23, 

92 
Binney,   Horace,   Jr.,   mention   of, 

231 
Boardman,    Richard,    mention    of, 

114 
Bodies    and    Monuments,    removal 

of,  10,  11 
Bond,  Capt.,  his  Company,  ref.  to, 

30 
Bonham,  Ephraim,  account  of,  31 
Boston    City   Guards,  mention   of, 

137 
Boston  Post  Boy,  in  ref.  to  Rev. 

Wm.  McClenaehan,  66 
Bowman,    Capt.    Samuel,    mention 

of,  144 
Eleanor    Ledlie,    mention    of, 

144 
Rt.  Rev.  Samuel,  mention  of, 

144 
Boyer,  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  H.,  rector- 
ship of,  175,  176 
Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  H.,  portrait 

of,  facing  p.  175 
Bradford,  Samuel  F.,  note  on,  122 
Braidfoot,  Rev,  mention  of,  95 
Brandywine,  Battle  of,  ref.  to,  oQ 

67,  92,  99,  199 
Bray,  Dr.,  "  Visitations,"  ref.  to, 

27 
Brown,  Andrew,  sad  fate  of,  ref. 

to.  111 
Mr.     Justice,    opinion    in    re 

Pearsall   r.   Great   Northern 

R.  R.  Co.,  9 
Brumbaugh,  Martin  G.,  veto  of,  in 


283 


3nlie;E  to  ^ubitct^. 


re   removal   of  bodies,   192, 
193 
Bulletin,     PMladelphia     Evening, 

the,  quoted,  156,  157 
Bullock,  Joseph,  account  of,  200 

Joseph,  mention  of,  36 
Burial  Grounds,  Acts  of  Assembly 
in  re,  12,  13 
Grounds,  Sacredness  of,  13-15 
Places,    excepted    from    being 

appropriated,   13 
Places  safeguarded,  18 
lot,  owner  of,  not  entitled  to 

compensation,  11 
and  Eemoval  of  Bodies,  Legal 
Opinions  on,  12 
Burnet's   "History  of  the  Eefor- 

mation,"  ref.  to,  126,  133 
Burnett,  Mrs.  Frances  H.,  quoted, 

151 
Byrd,    Col.   Wm.,    second,   ref.    to, 
48,  49 

Cadwalader,  Gen.  John,  notice  of, 
118 

Calvary  Church,  mentioned,  169, 
177 

Calvinist  Church,  Germantown,  ref. 
to,  80 

Campbell,  John,  mention  of,  36 
John,  notice  of,  199 
Capt.  Thos.,  note  on,  31 

Cannon,  Ann,  notice  of,  240 

Carey's  "Short  Account  of  the 
Malignant  Fever,  Lately 
Prevalent  in  Philadelphia," 
ref.  to,  116 

Carpenter's    Company,    The,    men- 
tioned, 228 
Company,  ref.  to,  22 
Hall',  ref.  to,  49 

Carson,  Hampton  Lawrence,  note 
on,  273 

Cathedra,  The,  picture  of,  facing 
p.  123 

Cathedral  Cemetery,  ref.  to,  15 


Centennial  Anniversary,  St.  Paul's, 
Eev.    Dr.    Richard    Newton 
on,  63,  64 
Chad's  Ford,  ref.  to,  22 
Chain  Carriers,  their  duty,  41 
Chambers,  Eev.  John,  mention  of, 

60 
Chancellor,   Sarah   Wharton,   men- 
tion of,  279 
Charles  I.,  mention  of,  49 

IL,  last  hours  of,  ref.  to,  279 
II.,  his  Charter  to  Penn,  ref. 
to,  27 
Charlton,  Thos.,  note  on,  33 
Chase,  mention  of,  271 
Chevaux-de-frise,  ref.  to,  23,  92 
Childs,  Allen,  notice  of,  131 

Eev.  Dr.  John  A.,  note  on,  131 

Christ  Church,  mention  of,  7,  9,  30, 

31,  32,  33,  34,  41,  44,  45,  46, 

47,  48,  49,  50,  51,  52,  67,  70, 

74,  82,  83,  85,  105,  106,  111, 

124,  131,  136,  143,  147,  179, 

194,  214,  215,  269,  271,  272, 

276,  279 

Church,  beginning  of,  25 

Church,  united   with   St. 

Peter's,  26,  51 
Church,  "Year  Book  and  Ee- 
membrances  of,"  ref.  to,  27 
Church,     in     relation     to     St. 

Paul's,  28 
Church,   illustr.    of,    facing   p. 

29 
Church,  Dr.   Magaw's  sermon 

at,  99,  100 
Church,  first  Gen'l  Convention 

meets  at,  103 
Church,    do,    2d    Gen'l    Conv., 

104 
Church,  1st  ordination  at,  104 
Church,   Brooklyn,    mentioned, 

158,  160 
Church,    Cincinnati,    O.,    men- 
tioned, 158 


284 


l^igftorp  0t  §»t  paursi  episcopal  CJurc^. 


Christ  Church,  Dover,  Del.,  ref.  to, 
79,  97,  98,  100 
Church,     Glendale,     0.,     men- 
tioned, 175 
Church,  Mispillion,  ref.  to,  98 
Church,  Monticello,  Fla.,  men- 
tioned, 175 
Church,  New  York  City,  men- 
tioned, 116 
Church,  Pottstown,  mentioned, 

168 
Church,    Shrewsbury,     N.     J., 

mentioned,  175 
Church,    Eeading,    Pa.,    men- 
tioned, 141 
Eiverton,    N.    J.,    mentioned, 

174 
Church,  Upper  Merlon,  ref.  to, 

26 
Church,  Xenia,  0.,  mentioned, 
175 
Christian     Street     Hospital,    men- 
tioned,   171 
Church  and  State,  the  latter  must 
exercise    its    control    some- 
times   in     matters    of    the 
former,  63 
and  State,  union  of,  no  longer 
tolerated,  92,  115 
Churchman,  The,  ref.  to,  74 
Chiirch  Missionary  House,  ref.  to, 

131,  132 
Churchmen,    "good,    harsh    meas- 
ures would  never  make, ' '  83 
distinguished  American,  91 
Cincinnati,    Society    of    the,    men- 
tioned, 246,  270,  272,  286 
Society  of  the,  appeal  of,  8 
Pa.  Soc.   of  the,  ref.   to,   21, 
22,  32,  99 
Oincinnatus,  the  illustrious,  of  our 
lage,    Washington,    ref.    to, 
100 
Citizens     Volunteer     Hosp.,     men- 
tioned, 171 
City  Alms  House,  ref.  to,  51 


City  Hall  or  State  House  Square, 
ref.  to,  40 
Hall,  Broad  and  Market  Sts., 

ref.  to,  95 
Mission,    Diocesan    House    for 

the,  ref.  to,  286 
Troop,  monument  of,  to  Capt. 

€has.  Eoss,  15 
Troop,  ref.  to,  424 
Civil  War,  ref.  to,  167 
Civil  War,  ref.  to,   167,  270,  271, 

277,  279 
Clark,  E.   W.,  &  Co.,  mention  of, 

270 
Clarkson,      Joseph,     admitted     to 

diaconate,  104 
Claxton,  John,  note  on,  270 
Claypoole,  James,  account  of,  270 
Eebecca    White,    note,   270 
Mary  Chambers,  note,  270 
Elizabeth,  note,  270 
Mary,  note,  270 
Abraham  George,  note,  270 
Elizabeth    P.    Falconer,    note, 

270 
Elizabeth  Steele,  note,  270 
David    Chambers,    note,    270 
Clayton,  Eev.  Thos.,  sent  to  Phila., 
26 
his  strange  epithet,  27 
where  he  died,  28 
Clergy,  position  of,  at  the  breaking 
out    of    the    Eevolution,    90 
seq. 
Eoyalist,     sufferings     of,     in- 
tense, 94,  97 
Clergymen,  poor,  aided,  171 
Clinton,  letter  to,  by  Washington, 

ref.  to,  279 
Coats,  John,  note  on,  33 

Sarah  Penrose,  note  on,  33 
Coit,  Eev.  Dr.  Henry  A.,  notice  of, 
168 
Mary   B.   Wheeler,   notice   of, 
168 


285 


3intie%  to  fe>utJi«t0. 


Coke,  Eev.  Dr.  Thos.,  mention  of,  Conrad,  Eev.  Dr.  Thos.  K.,  rector- 

98,   114  ship  of,  177,  178 

Et.  Eev.,  proposes  conference,  Eev.   Dr.,  portrait  of,   facing 

56  p.  179 

Colket,  C.  Howard,  mention  of,  234  Consecrated  Places  City's  greatest 

College  of  Philadelphia,  mentioned,  Asset,  20 

29,  45,  47,  52  Continental   Congress,   ref.   to,   22, 


Colonial   Churches,   Grants   of  the 

Crown  to,  9 
Churches,  no  confirmations  in, 

54 
architecture,  ref.  to,  136 
Dames,    Societies    of,    in    Pa., 

ref.  to,  22 
Dames    of    America,    mention 

of,  286 
settlers,  ref.  to,  91  seq. 
Society,  mention  of,  223,  228, 

234,  244,  286 
Society,   officers  and  members 

of  the,  281-284 


49,  67,  78 
Congress  appoints  day  of  fast- 
ing and  prayer,  91 
Congress  leaves   State   House, 

93 
Congress,  resolution  of,  in  ref. 

to    Washington 's    birthday, 

110 
Cooke,  Jay,  notice  of,  44,  172,  270, 

271 
Jay,    letter    of,    to    Eev.    Dr. 

Eichard  Newton,  152,  153 
Jay,  account  of,  270,  '271,  277 


Eleutheros,  mention  of,  270 
Society,    publications    of    the,      Cookman,   Eev.    Geo.,   mention   of, 

285,  286  60 

Society  of  Pa.,  ref.  to,  21,  49,      Coombe,  Eev.  Thos.,  mention  of,  91 


101 

Society,    Swedish,    mentioned, 

285 
Wars,  Soc.  of,  in  Pa.,  ref.  to, 
22,  67 
Columbia    College,    N.     Y.,    men- 
tioned, 142 
Commercial  Exchange  Ass'n,  men- 
tioned, 163 
Common  Pleas,  Court  of,  in  re  "Re- 
movals, 17,  19 
Pleas,    Court    of,   ref.   to,    30, 
170,  181,   185,  189 
Compton,   Henry,  Bishop   of  Lon-      Coyle,  Capt.  John,  mention  of.  111 
don,  mention  of,  26  Cromwell,  Thomas,  mention  of,  278 

his  foresight,  27  Crozer,  Lewis,  notice  of,  277 

Congregational  Church,  ref.  to,  57,  Mary  A.  Stotesbury,  notice  of, 

176  277 

Congress  of  Eeligion,  ref.  to,  172      Cummings,    Emily    E.    Alexander, 
Connecticut,  Laws  of,  ref.  to,  59  notice  of,  163 

Conrad,    Anne    Eraser,    notice    of,  Wm.,  mention  of,  3,   61,   161, 

178  172 

286 


Copper,   Capt.  Norris,  mention  of, 
270 
Elizabeth    Claypoole,    mention 
of,  270 

Corn  Exchange  Guard,  mentioned, 
220 
Exchange  Eegiment,  men- 
tioned, 163 

Cornwallis,     Lord,     surrender     of, 
94 

Covenant  Church,  ref.  to,  146,  154, 
168 

Coverdale,  Miles,  mention  of,  278 


m0tiit^  ot  ^t  pauri^  episcopal  C^utcJ. 


Cummings,  Wm.j  Family  Vault,  il- 
lustr.j  5 
Wm.,   Family  Pew,   deed  for, 

62 
Wm.,    portrait    of,    facing    p. 

162 
Wm.,  account  of,  162,  163 
Wm.,  mention  of,  231 
Wm.,  notice  of,  254 
Emily  R.  A.,  notice  of,  254 
Currie,  Wm.,  M.D.,  notice  of,  234 
Eev.  Dr.  Wm.,  notice  of,  234 
Cuthbert,  Thomas,  account  of,  271 
Ann  Wilkinson,  notice  of,  271 

Dartmouth  College,  ref.  to,  9 
Davis,     Jefferson,     letter     of,     to 

Grant,  ref.  to,  279 
Dead,  Rights  of  the,  9,  191 

Removal  of,  12,  13,  189,  192 
Desecration  of^  16 
Deaver,    Caroline    Randall,    notice 

of,  250 
Dr.  John  B.,  notice  of,  250 
Debtor's  Prison,  ref.  to,  67 
Debts,  property  liable  for,  58 
De   la   Grange,  Joseph  E.   G.   M., 

mention  of.  111 
Delaicare   Historiccl    Soc,    Papers 

of,  ref.  to,  28 
River   channel   obstructed,   23, 

92 
Democratic  Society,  ref.  to,  67 
Descendants,  Rights  of,  4 
Dickinson  College,  Carlisle,  ref.  to, 

40,  41 
Diocesan  House,  building  of,  con- 
sidered, 3,  17 
Disciples,  ref.  to,  57 
Disinterment,  a  misdemeanor,  11 
Dissenters,  ref.  to,  54 
Don   Quixote,   History   of,   alluded 

to,  84 
Dorcas  Society,  mentioned,  171 
Dorr's   "History   of  Christ 

Church,"  ref.  to,  26,  28 


Dougherty,  James,  mention  of,  36 
Doz,  Andrew,  account  of,  32,  33 
Andrew,  mention  of,   36,   101, 

105,  112,  119 
Rebecca    Cash,   notice   of,    32, 

112 

Lucia,  notice  of,  32,  112 

Drexel,    Anthony    J.,    mention    of, 

278 

Institute,  mentioned,   178 

Drinker,     Elizabeth,     * '  Journal, ' ' 

ref.  to.  111 
Du  Barry,  John,  notice  of,  235 
Sophia    Du    Plessis,    note    on, 
235 
Duehe,  Anthony,  note  on,  33 
Sarah  Coats,  note  on,  33 
Elizabeth  H.,  note  on,  50 
Rev.   Dr.    Jacob,   mention    of, 

45,  53,  82,  83,  87,  88,  91 
Rev.,   account   of,   49,   50 
Dunlap,  John,  notice  of,  78,  100 
Wm.,  notice  of,  77,  78 
Wm.,  preaches  at  St.  Paul's, 

77 
Wm.,    prevented   being    rector 

of  St.  Paul's,  78 
Wm.,  account  of,  78 
Du   Plessis,  Peter  le   Barbier,  ac- 
count of,  234,   235 
Geo.,  note  on,  235 
Helena,  note  on,  235 
Sophia,  note  on,  235 
Dupuy,  Daniel,  notice  of,  272 

Dr.  John,  notice  of,  272 
Dutch    Churchyard,    Ref.,    Grave- 
send,  inscriptions  in,  ref.  to, 
99 
i.  e.,  Germans,  well  affected  to 
the  Church  of  England,   80 

Edinburgh,  University  of,  men- 
tioned, 199 

Egle's  "Notes  and  Queries,"  ref. 
to,  99 

Eliot  Indian  Bible,  notice  of,  278 


287 


3lnli«  to  ^i\b]tct0. 


Elizabeth,  Queen,  her  prayer-book, 

ref.  to,  278 
Emanuel  Church,  New  Castle,  Del., 

mention  of,  29 
Emes,  Worsley,  notice  of,  272 
Emmanuel  Church,  Brooklyn,  men- 
tioned, 158 
Church,  Kensington,   note   on, 
43,  169 
Enoch,  in  masonic  connection,  ref. 

to,  100 
Epiphany  Church,  note  on,  43,  137, 
138,  139,  154,  155,  168,  169, 
178 
Episcopal  Church,  ref.  to,  15,  23, 
47,  57,  98,  138,  141,  143 
Church,    propagation    of    the, 

ref.  to,  44 
Church,  lack  of  growth  of,  54 
Church,  reasons  thereof,  55 
Church,    American,    formation 
of,  in  relation  to  St.  Paul's, 
63 
Church,  Academy  of  the,  ref. 

to,  101 
Church,  organization  of,  in  U. 

S.,  102 
Divinity  School,  ref.  to,  147 
Education     Soc,     mentioned, 

138 
Becorder,  the,  mentioned,  138 
Academy,  ref.  to,  277 
Clergy,      convention      of,      in 

Philadelphia,  45 
Sunday-school,     the     first,     in 

Philadelphia,   122 
Clergy    of    Philadelphia,    ref. 

to,  146 
Hospital,  mentioned,   171 
Erasmus,  Bishop  of  Arcadia,  Crete, 

mention  of,  90 
Evangelical  Knowledge  Soc,  men- 
tioned, 138 
Evangelists,   Church  of   the,   men- 
tioned, 168,  169,  180 
Ezekiel,  20,  38,  quoted,  93 


Falconer,  Capt.,  see  Ealkner,  Les- 
ter 
Falkner,  Lester,  notice  of,  33,  42 

Sarah  Coats,  notice  of,  33 
Farmers     and     Mechanics     Bank, 

mentioned,  219,  279 
Farr,  John,  notice  of,  222 

John,  notice  of,  62,  130,  165, 

170 
Mary  J.,  notice  of,  130 
Lena  Haddock,  notice  of,  170 
Grace,  notice  of,  170 
Eev.  Dr.  Wm.  W.,  account  of, 
169,   170 
Federal  Gazette,  by  whom  founded, 

111 
Fessenden,  mention  of,  271 
Feudal  Laws,  ref.  to,  49 
Fine  Arts,  Academy  of,  mentioned, 

200 
Fire,  the  great,  at  9th  and  Wash- 
ington Sts.,  mentioned,  171 
First  Troop  City  Cavalry,  mention 
of,  4,  15,  23,  31,  67,  78 
Troop    City    Cavalry,    history 
of,  ref.  to,  4 
Fleeson,   Plunket,   account   of,   30, 
31,   239 
Plunket,  mention  of,  36,  105 
Foreign   Missionary  Soc,  London, 

mentioned,   151 
Forrest,  Edwin,  note  on,  221 
Wm.,  notice  of,  268 
Capt.  Wm.,  notice  of,  268 
Edwin,  Family  Vault,  Illustr. 
of,  6 
Fort  St.  David's,  Fishing  Co.   of, 
ref.   to,   31,   34 
St.  David's  Fishing  Co.,  men- 
tioned, 199 
Wilson,  note  on,  118 
Foster  Home,  mentioned,   171 
F.  &  A.  Masons,  Del.,  Gen'l  Com- 
munication of,  ref.  to,  100 
Franklin,  Benjamin,  notice  of,  33, 
78,  91,  100 


288 


m^tot^  ot  git  paurgi  episcopal  Cfiuccfi. 


Franklin  Fire  Ins.  Co.,  mentioned, 

219 
Francine,  James  L.,  note  on,  275 
Catharine  H.  Lohra,  note  on, 

275 
Freemasons,  mention  of,   105,  106 

seq.,  121 
Free  Society  of  Traders,  ref.  to,  25 
French,  and   Indian  War,  ref.  to, 

52,  70 
and  Indian  War,  mention  of, 

199 
Friendless  Children,  So.  Home  for, 

mentioned,   171 
Fries  Eebellion,  ref.  to,  270 
Funerals,  cost  of,  ref.  to,  43 

Gardner's    Wharf,    where    located, 

40 
Garrick,  mention  of,  95 
Genealogical   Society   of   Pa.,    The 

mention   of,   23,   216,   2S6 
General   Theological  Seminary,  N. 

Y.,  145,  158,  174,  180 
George,  J.  D.,  note  on,  62 
Henry,  note  on,  62 
III,  mention  of,  90,  93 
German  E.  C.  Holy  Trinity  Burial 

Ground,  ref.  to,  18 
Germantown,    no   kind   of   English 

Worship  there,  79,  80 
Gibbons,  Eev.  Dr.  Hughes  O.,  ob- 
jects to  Sale  Pine  St.  Presb. 
Church,  15,  16 
Girard,  Stephen,  mention  of,  231 
National      Bank,      mentioned, 

219 
Mary  Lum,  notice  of,  117 
Stephen,  mentioned,  12 
Stephen,    ministers    to    fellow 

citizens,  117 
National      Bank,      mentioned, 
163 
Glentworth,  Dr.  Geo.,  where  buried, 

4, 
Dr.  Geo.,  mention  of,  23,  36 

20  289 


Glentworth,   Dr.   Geo.,   account   of, 
199,  200 
Dr.  Peter  S.,  a  martyr  to  his 

profession,  200 
Dr.   Plunket   Fleeson,  account 
of,  200 
Gloria    Dei,    Swedes    Church,    ref. 

to,  26,  32,  169 
Gluck,  autograph  of,  ref.  to,  279 
Goddard,  Eev.  Dr.  Kingston,  rec- 
torship of,  158-160 
portrait  of,  facing  p.  158 
God-fearing  men  and  women,  note 

on,  61 
Goodman,  Capt.  Walter,  notice  of, 

31 
Good    Samaritan     Hospital,    men- 
tioned, 170 
Goodwin,  Geo.,  mention  of,  36 

Samuel,  note  on,  70 
Gosner,  Daniel,  account  of,  256 
Capt.  Peter,  notice  of,  256 
Eebecca  T.,  notice  of,  256 
Gowen,  James,  account  of,  272 
Franklin  B.,  notice  of,  272 
James,  notice  of,  273 
Francis  I.,  notice  of,  273 
Grace  Church,  note  on,  43,  146 

Church,   Sandusky,   mentioned, 

169 
Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  men- 
tioned, 179 
Graham,  Wm.,  mention  of,  36 
Grand  Lodge,  A.  Y.  M.,  mentioned, 
218 
Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Pa., 
distinguished  members  of,  4 
Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Pa., 
distinguished  members  of,  23 
Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Pa., 
ref.    to,    34,    106    seq.,    122, 
130,  131,  159 
Grant,  Gen.  Ulysses  Simpson,  men- 
tioned, 271,  278,  279 
Greenleaf's  ''Sketches  of  the  Ee- 


Sntiej  to  g»ul)|fct0. 


clesiastical  Hist,  of  Maine, ' ' 
ref.  to,  66 

Greenleaf's      "Portland      in      the 
Past,"  ref.  to,  66 

Griswold,  Et.   Eev.   Alex.   W.,  no- 
tice of,  138 

Groebe,    Lucas    Dokoe,    notice    of, 
228 
Ann,  notice  of,  228 
Aletta    Heylinger,    notice    of, 
228 

Hall,  David,  account  of,  33 
David,  Jr.,  notice  of,  3 
Wm.,  notice  of,  33 
Eev.    Eichard    Drayson,    note 

on,  230 
Mary  Douglass,  note  on,  230 
Capt.    David,   member    of   the 

Grand  Lodge,  4 
Capt.  David,  where  buried,  4 
Capt.  David,  mention  of,  23 
Hamilton,  Alexander,  note  on,  118 

Jas.,  mention  of,  45 
Handel,  autograph  of,  ref.  to,  279 
Hare,  Eobert,  mention  of,  279 

&  T wells,  ref.  to,  279 
Harvard   College,   mentioned,    135, 

138 
Hasell,  Samuel,  notice  of,  31 
Hawkins '  ' '  Missions  of  the  Church 
of    England    in    the    Colo- 
nies," ref.  to,  28 
Hawk's   "Ecclesiastical    Contribu- 
tions," ref.  to,  27 
Haydn,  autograph  of,  ref.  to,  279 
Hayes,    Capt.    Thos.,    mention    of, 

231 
Hazzard's  "Eegister  of  Pa.,"  ref. 

to,  27 
Heavenly  Eest,  Church  of  the,  men- 
tioned, 177 
Henry    VIIL,     primer     of,     men- 
tioned, 278 
Heyl,  Geo.,  account  of,  239,  240 
Geo.  Thos.,  notice  of,  239 


Heyl,  Susanna  S.,  notice  of,  239 
Philip,  notice  of,  239 
Dorothea  PhUe,  notice  of,  239 
Geo.,  mention  of,  239,  240 
Wm.,  mention  of,  239 
Geo.  A.,  notice  of,  240 
Heylinger,  Aletta,  notice  of,  228 
Hibernia  Fire  Co.,  note  on,  152 
Engine  Co.,  mentioned,  239 
Hibernian  Society,  mentioned,  199, 

219 
Hiltzheimer,  Jacob,  quoted,  277 
Jacob,  his  Diary,  ref.  to,  32 
Hist.  Society  of  Delaivare,  Papers, 

ref.  to,  43,  98 
Historical  Society  of  Pa.,  mention 
of,  23,  38,  73,  99,  111,  112, 
120 
Society,  Memoirs  of  the,  ref. 
to,  27,  28 
Historical    Society    of   Pa.,    disap- 
proval of,  in  re  sale  of  Old 
St.  Paul's,  286 
Ploly  Apostles,  Church  of  the,  note 
on,  44 
Apostles,  its  three  chapels,  44 
Apostles  Mission,  mention  of, 

278 
Trinity,    Nice,    France,    men- 
tioned, 177 
Saviour,    Companions    of    the, 

mentioned,   180 
Spirit  Church,  mentioned,  175, 

176 
Trinity,      Philadelphia,      men- 
tioned, 146 
Trinity  Church,  West  Chester, 

mentioned,  146 
Trinity  (Old  Swedes)   Church, 
Wilmington,  ref.  to,  42,  43 
Hollingsworth,    Levi,    account    of, 
273 
Zebulon,  notice  of,  273 
Ann  Mauldin,  notice  of,  273 
Hannah    Pasehall,    notice    of, 
273 


290 


l^iiStotg  ot  git  paur0  episcopal  CSutc^. 


Hollingsworth,  Paschall,  notice  of, 
273 
Mary  Wilson,  notice  of,  273 
Mary,  notice  of,  273 
Henry,  notice  of,  273 
Sarah   Humplireys,   notice   of, 
273 
Home-life,  simplicity  of,  59 
Hooker,   Gen'l,  mention  of,  278 
Hopkinson,  Francis,  notice  of,  275 
Hotehkin,  "Country  Clergy,"  ref. 

to,  143,  155 
Howard,  John,  note  on,  33 

Hospital,  mentioned,  163 
Howe,  Gen.  Wm.,  note  on,  50 

Gen.,    defeats    Washington    at 
Brandywine,  92 
Humphreys,  Joshua,  notice  of,  273 
Huntingdon   &   Broad    Top   E.   E. 

Co.,  mentioned,  163 
Huston,  John  Hasell,  notice  of,  '219 
John  H.,  note  on,  68 
Martha  M.,  note  on,  68 
Mary,  note  on,  68 

Independence  Bell,  ref.  to,  29 

cause    of,    contributors   to,   67 
Declaration    of,    ref.    to,    29, 

50,  78,  97,  273,  278 
Hall,  note  on,  199 
Hall,  ref.  to,  28,  29,  30 
Hall,  First  Gen.  Conv.  United 
P.  E.  Church  meets  at,  105 
Indians,  Penn's  dealings  with  the 

ref.  to,  279 
Inglis,  John,  notice  of,  97 

Sir  John  E.  W.,  notice  of,  97 
Eev.  Chas.,  account  of,  97 
Mary  Vining,  notice  of,  97 
Ins.  Co.  of  North  Am.,  mention  of, 

118,  163 
Intelligencer,  Legal,  mentioned,  186 

Jay  Cooke  &  Co.,  referred  to,  277 
Jayne  Bldg.,  note  on,  235 
Jefferson  College,  Pa.,  mentioned, 
138,  143 


Jenney,  Eev.   Dr.,  moves  building 
St.  Peter's,  25,  26 
Eev.  Dr.,  his  protest  concern- 
ing Eev.  MeiClenachan,  45 
Eev.  Dr.,  letter  to,  in  re  Eev. 

MeiClenachan,  46 
Eev.  Dr.,  ref.  to,  51,  70,  71 
Jerman,    John,   his    Almanac,    ref. 

to,  78 
John,  11,  25,  26,  quoted,  235 
John's  "Life  of  Bishop  Meade," 

ref.  to,   74 
Jones,  Capt.  Gibbs,  account  of,  23 
Col.    Blathwaite,    member    of 

the  Grand  Lodge,  4 
Col.,  where  buried,  4 
Col.,  mention  of,  22,  164 
Col.,  portrait  of,  facing  p.  23 
Col.,  account  of,  23 
Col.  Washington 's  chief  engi- 
neer officer,  92 
Jordan,  Dr.  John  W.,  mention  of, 

38 
Jubal,  in  masonic  connection,  ref. 
to,  100 

Keble,  John,  mention  of,  36 

John,  account  of,  200 
Keen,  Matthias  Valentine,  note  on, 
245 
Elizabeth  Hood,  note  on,  245 
Gregory    Bernard,    L.L.D., 
"Descendants       of       Joran 
Kyn  of  New  Sweden,"  ref. 
to,  23,  245 
Keith's  Provincial  Councillors,  ref. 

to,  72 
Kenyon  College,  Ohio,  mentioned, 

154,  159,  169,  175 
King,  Eobert  Pennick,  account  of, 
274 
Daniel  J.,  notice  of,  274 
Leroy  N.,  notice  of,  274 
&  Baird,  notice  of,  274 
King's  College,  mention  of,  97 
College,  N.  S.,  mentioned,  174 


291 


Unhct  to  ^ubiectiS. 


King's  College,  Canada,  mentioned,      Letts,  Capt.  Ezekiel,  notice  of,  275 

Lewis,  Geo.,  anecdote  of,  151,  152 
Liberty  Bell,  sale  of,  authorized,  8 
Lincoln,    Abraham,    letters    of,    to 

Gen'l  Hooker,  ref.  to,  '278 
Lind,  Jenny,  autograph  of,  ref.  to, 

279 
Living    Church,    The,    mentioned, 

180 
Lodge,    Concordia,    No.    67,    men- 
tioned, 111 

Continental,  No.  257,  F.  &  A. 
M.,  mentioned,  139 

Franklin,  No.  134,  mentioned, 
274 

51  F.  and  A.  M.,  mentioned, 
220 

No.  2,  ref.  to,  231,  254,  255 

No.  3,  ref.  to,  254 

The  Grand,  of  Pa.,  mentioned, 
255,  274 

Harmony,  No.  52,  m_entioned, 
111 

L'Amenite,  No.  73,  men- 
tioned, 111 

Montgomery,  F.  &  A.  M.,  men- 
tioned,  228 

Montgomery,  No.  19,  ref.  to, 
235 

Industry,  No.  31,  mentioned, 
228 

Philadelphia,  No.  72,  men- 
tioned, 111,  228 

St.  Louis,  No.  53,  ref.  to,  235 

Columbia,  No.  91,  ref.  to, 
235 

No.  2,  F.  and  A.  Masons  of 
Pa.,  the  Mother  Lodge  of 
the  State,  4 

No.  2,  mention  of,  23,  31,  33, 
34 

No.  2,  Ancient  York  Masons, 
ref.  to,  31 

No.  2,  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Phila- 
delphia,  extract   from   min- 


180 
Kittera,  Thos.,  mention  of,  8,  130 

Thos.,  notice  of,  218 
Knorr,  John,  notice  of,  275 

Mary,  notice  of,  275 
Knowles,  John,  notice  of,  31 
KoUock,  Cornelius,  note  on,  265 
Lieut.    Jacob,    Jr.,    notice    of, 

265 
Mary  Leech,  notice  of,  265 
Mary  Eogerson,  notice  of,  265 
Kunzi,  A.,  note  on,  130 
Kyn,   Joran,    descendants   of,   ref. 
to,  23 

Ladies'    Aid    Society,    mentioned, 

171 
Lafayette,  Marquis  de,  wounded  at 

Brandywine,    by    whom    at- 
tended, 99 
Laity,    rights    of    the,    recognition 

of,  insisted  upon,  103 
Latimer,  Thos.,  mention  of,  170 
Laurel   Hill,   ref.   to,   15,   16,   155, 

175 
Hill  Cemetery,  mentioned,  250, 

261 
Layman's  Magazine,  The,  ref.  to, 

126,  133 
Lea,  Mrs.  Arthur  H.,  mention  of, 

239 
Leach,   J.    Granville,   "History   of 

the   Penrose    Family, ' '    ref. 

to,  200 
Ledlie,  Elizabeth  Wood,  notice  of, 

218 
Lee,    Gen'l    Robert    Edward,    sur- 
render of,  ref.  to,  278 
surrenders    commission    in    U. 

S.  army,  ref.  to,  279 
Major,     satirized     by     Major 

Andre,  93 
Leech,  Thos.,  account  of,  29 

Thos.,  ref.  to,  36 
Leland    Stanford    Jr.    University, 

mentioned,  172 


292 


I^igftot?  ot  S)t  paur0  episcopal  Cfiurc^. 


utes  of,  in  ref.  to  members 
of  St.  Paul's,  90 
Lodge    No.    2,    meetings    of,    sus- 
pended, 93 
No.  2,  mentioned.  111,  163 
No.  3,  mention  of,  23,  33,  34, 

111 
No.  9,  mention  of,  111 
No.    19,   mention    of,   23,    111 
Orange,    No.    71,    mentioned, 

111 
Phoenix,     Chester     Co.,     Pa., 

mentioned,  131 
Washington,      No      59,     men- 
tioned, 111 
Loganian  Library,  ref.  to,  104 
Lohra,  John,  account  of,  275 
Mary  Knorr,  notice  of,  275 
&  Carlisle,  mention  of,  275 
Lombard  St.  Public  School,  men- 
tioned, 129 
Loper,     Capt.     Eichard    P.,    men- 
tioned, 152 
Lot-holders,  summary  of  law  rela- 
tive to,  10,  11 
ref.   to,   17,   189 
Lotteries  frequently  used  to  raise 
money    for     civic    and    re- 
ligious purposes,  40 
employed      to      build      Christ 

Church  steeple,  40 
to    raise    money    for   the   Sec- 
ond    Presbyterian     Church, 
40 
prohibited  in  Pa.,  40 
Lottery  to  erect  City  Hall,  40 

in  re  Wm.  Dunlap,  77 
Louther  M.  E.  Church,  ref.  to,  190 
Lowber,  Dr.  Edward,  mention  of, 
279 
Elizabeth    Twells,    mentioned, 
279 
Lowth,    Et.    Eev.,    consequence    of 
his    refusal    of    ordination, 
56,  115 
Lueknow,  siege  of,  ref.  to,  97 


Lutheran  Church,  ref.  to,  57,  80 
Luzerne,  Chevalier  de,  mention  of, 
105 

Macpherson,    Capt.   John,   mention 
of,  22 
Brig.  Gen'l  Wm.,  mention  of, 
23 
Madison,  Et.  Eev.  mention  of,  56 
Magaw,  Dr.  Wm.,  notice  of,  99 

Lucia  Doz,  notice  of,  32,  99, 

112 
Major  Eobert,  notice  of,  99 
Marrite  van  Brunt,  notice  of, 

99 
Eev.  Dr.  Samuel,  notice  of,  32, 

36,  116,  119 
Eev.    Dr.    Samuel,    rectorship 

of,  96-112 
Eev.   Dr.  Samuel,  Dover  mis- 
sion of,  98 
Eev.      Dr.      Samuel,      desired 

peace  with  honour,  99 
Eev.  Dr.  Samuel,  his  discourse 
preached   in   Christ   Church, 
Philadelphia,  ref.  to,  99 
Eev.  Dr.  Samuel,  elected  rec- 
tor, 101 
Eev.  Dr.  Samuel,  esteemed  by 

Masonic  Fraternity,  105 
Eev.     Dr.     Samuel,     Masonic 
prayer  by,  106  seq. 
Maine  Historical  Soc.,   Collections 

of  the,  ref.  to,  67,  70 
Marie  Antoinette,  mention  of,  278, 

279 
Mark  Baskett  Bible,  note  on,  278 
Markoe,  Capt.  Abraham,  notice  of, 
30,  42 
Elizabeth  Baynton,  notice  of, 
30,  42 
Marshall,  John,  mention   of,   54 
Marston,  John,  Jr.,  aids  in  organi- 
zation      of      Sunday-school 
Ass'n  P.  E.  Church,  170 
Martin,   John   Hill,  warning   of,  9 


293 


3nlif5E  to  ^\xbittt&. 


J.  Willis,  decree  of,  in  re  dis- 
solution of  6t.  Paul's,  186, 
188 
Mass.,  General  Laws  of,  ref.  to,  59 
Matlack,  Timothy,  note  on,  270 

Elizabeth  Claypoole,   note  on, 
270 
Matthews,  John,  note  on,  123 
May,  Adam,  notice  of,  228 

Catharine  Diehl,  notice  of, 
228 

Ellen  Stuart  Bowman,  notice 
of,  144 

Rev.  Dr.,  mentioned,  269 

Rev.  Dr.  Jas.,  Rectorship  of, 
143,  144 

Rev.  Dr.  Jas.,  portrait  of,  fac- 
ing p.  143 

Rev.    Thos.    Potts,    notice    of, 
143 
McClenachan,    Blair,    mention    of, 
4,  36 

Blair,  account  of,   67,  68 

where  buried,  4,  68 

Isabella,  notice  of,  72 

John,  note  on,  70 

Rev.  Dr.  Wm.,  his  sermon  on 
Thos.  Leech,  ref.  to,  29 

jef.  to,  35,  45,  46,  47,  48,  49, 
51,  52,  53,  79,  82 

Teetorship  of,  66-78 

Rev.  Dr.  Wm.,  his  eloquence 
and  piety,  44 

invited  to  preach  at  Christ 
Church,  70,  71 

elected  as  assistant  to  Rev. 
Dr.  Jenney,   71 

dismissed  by  the  same,  71 

preaches  at  State  House,  71, 
72 

Martha,  note  on,  68 
MoConnell,  Dr.,  quoted,  57,  74 

Rev.  Dr.,  S.D.,  "History  of 
the  American  Episcopal 
Church,"  ref.  to,  35,  57,  94, 
215 


McCoskrey,    Rev.    Dr.,    mentioned, 
269 
Rev.    Dr.    Samuel    A.,    rector- 
ship of,  141,  142 
portrait  of,  facing  p.  141 
McCulloch,  Hugh,  mention  of,  270, 

271 
McCuUough,    Mary   J.,    notice    of, 
130 
iSarah,  notice  of,  130 
McGarvey,   Rev.  Dr.  Wm.   L,  rec- 
torship of,  180,  181 
Rev.  Dr.  Wm.  I.,  portrait  of, 
facing  p.   182 
Mcllvaine,  Rt.  Rev.,  notice  of,  127 
Mcllwee,  John,  mention  of,  111 
Meade,     Rt.     Rev.     Wm.,     ''Old 
Churches,      Ministers,      and 
Families    of    Virginia, ' ' 
quoted  in  ref.  to  Rev.  Ben- 
jamin Allen,  125  seq. 
Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  note  on,  133 
Medical    Soc.    of    Pa.,    mentioned, 

199 
Meer,  John,  Sr.,  account  of,  250 
Mary  Gould  West,  notice  of, 
250 
Memorial  Ass.  Valley  Forge,  men- 
tioned, 8 
Memorials  of  the  Past,  Preserva- 
tion of,  7 
Merchants  Fund,  mentioned,  163 
Methodist    Church,    organized,    56, 
115 
Church,  ref.  to,  98,  113 
Cemetery  case,  ref.  to,  189 
Mexican  War,  referred  to,  270 
Mickve   Israel,   ref.  to,  40 
MiMn,  Thos.,  mention  of,  105 
Mitchell,  Jas.  T.,  opinion  of,  8 
Molly  Maguires,  mention  of,  273 
Monges,  Dr.,  notice  of,  101 
Montreal     Assurance     Co.,     men- 
tioned, 219 
Monuments    and    Bodies,    removal 
of,  10,  11 


294 


^i&totTg  of  felt  paurgi  €pi0copal  CfjurcS. 


Moorhead,    J.    Barlow,    notice    of, 
278 
Ada  E.,  notice  of,  278 
Wm,  G.,  mention  of,  270 
Morgan,  Col.  Geo.,  notice  of,  30 

Mary  Baynton,  notice  of,  30 
Morris,  Anthony,  Jr.,  mention  of, 
35,  36 
Israel,  mention  of,  36 
Appeal,  ref .  to,  4 
Israel  Wistar,  notice  of,  273 
Mary  Hollingsworth,  notice  of, 

273 
Robert,  note  on,  118 
Moslem,  piety  of,  ref.  to,  15 
Moss,  John,  mention  of,  231 
Mozart,  autograph  of,  ref.  to,  279 
Mt.  Moriah  Cemetery  Ass'n,  men- 
tioned, 274 
removals  to,  7 

lot  in,   owned  by  St.   Paul's, 
ref.   to,  37,   186 
Muhlenberg,  Dr.  John  P.,  mention 
of,  95 

Nashotah  Seminary,  "Wis.,  men- 
tioned, 181 

Nativity,  Church  of  the,  men- 
tioned, 168 

Neals  and  Hutchinson's  "Digests 
of  Ordinances  of  New  Eng- 
land,"  ref.  to,  59 

Neave,  Richard,  and  son,  their 
gift  to  St.  Paul 's,  42 

Negroes  in  Philadelphia,  note  on, 
45,  51,   52,   70 

Neill,  Rev.  Hugh,  notice  of,  40 
Rev.  Hugh,  rectorship  of,  79- 

85 
Rev.    Hugh,    lauds    people    of 

St.  Paul's,  81 
Rev.  Hugh,  directed  not  to 
give  assistance  to  Mr.  Mac- 
clenathan's  Congreg.,  81 
Rev.  Hugh,  vindicates  his  con- 
duct as  to  officiating  in  St. 
Paul's,  82 


Nelson,  Geo.,  mention  of,  36 

Wm.,  mention  of,  111 
Newcastle,   Del.,    Church    at,    note 

on,   43 
Newton,    Lydia    Greatorex,    notice 

of,  155,  161 
Mary  E.  Lewis,  note  on,  172 
Rev.  R,  Heber,  mentioned,  274 
Rev.   Dr.  Richard,  mentioned, 

269 
Rev.  Dr.  Richard,  "The  Pas- 
tor 's  Offering  to  his  Flock, ' ' 

ref.  to,  222 
Rev.  Dr.  Richard,  his  memory 

honored,  44 
Rev.    Dr.    Richard,    peculiarly 

successful,  54 
Rev.  Dr.  Richard,  famous  for 

children's  sermons,  60,  154, 

156 
Rev.     Dr.     Richard,     eloquent 

words  of,  at  St.  Paul's  Cen- 
tennial Anniversary,  63,  64 
Rev.  Dr.  Richard,  on  evangel- 
ical truths,  74,   75 
Rev.   Dr.   Richard,   Rectorship 

of,  145-157 
Rev.  Dr.  Richard,  portrait  of, 

facing  p.   145 
Rev.  Dr.  Richard,  letter  to,  by 

Mr.    and    Mrs.    Jay   Cooke, 

152,   153 
Rev.  Dr.  R.  Heber,  letter  to, 

in    ref.    to    Fiftieth   Anniv. 

St.     Paul 's     Sunday-school, 

142 
Rev.  Dr.  R.  Heber,  rectorship 

of,  161-173 
Rev.  Dr.  R.  Heber,  portrait  of, 

facing  p.  161 
Nicholson,  Gov.,  mention  of,  27 
Nilson,  Capt.  Andrew,  mention  of, 

111 
Non-Importation    Resolutions,    ref. 

to,  30,  31,  33,  199,  254 
North  American,  The,  note  on,  78 


295 


Sntitj  to  ^nhittt^. 


North  American,   Tlie,   mentioned, 

270 
North,  Eichard,  note  on,  123,  128 

Obed,  Brother,  note  on,  122 
Odenheimer,    John    W.,    note    on, 
275 
Et.  Eev.  Dr.   Wm.   Hy.,  note 

on,  275 
Et.  Eev.  Dr.  Wm.  H.,  letter  of, 
in  rel.  to  St.  Paul 's  Sunday- 
school,  165,  166 
Et.  Eev.  Dr.  Wm.  H.,  mention 
of,  168 
Old  South  Church,  Boston,  ref.  to, 

20,  21 
Old  Swedes,  see  Gloria  Dei. 
Onderdonk,  Et.  Eev.  Dr.  Hy.   U,, 

mention  of,  141,  146 
Ord,  Geo.,  mention  of,  36 
John,  notice  of,  275 
John,  account  of,  31 
Ann  Mason,  note  on,  31 
Ordination,      difficult      and      dan- 
gerous, 54 
its    refusal    and    consequence 

thereof,  56 
of  Eev.  Wm.  Stringer,  90 
Orphans,  Home  for  Soldiers'  and 
Sailors',  mentioned,  171 
Court,  Del,  Co.,  ref.  to,  185 
Oxford  Congregation,  52,  85 

UDiversity    of,    in    re    Degree 

for  Dr.  Smith,  84 
University  of,  ref.  to,  142 

Page,  S.  Davis,  note  on,  49 
Palmer,  John,  notice  of,  32,  36 
Deborah   Bankson,    notice    of, 

32 
Thos,,  notice  of,  217 
Parish  has  no  special  legal  signifi- 
cance in  Pa.,  102 
Parker,  Alvin  Mercer,  note  on,  223 
Joseph      Brooks      Bloodgood, 
note  on,  223 


Parvin,   Eev.   Eobert   J.,   note   on, 

155 
Pastoral  Aid  Association  founded, 

148 
Patriotic  Order  Sons   of  America 
save  historic  shrine,  8 
Societies  in  rel.  to  St.  Paul's 
Dead,  22,  23 
Paxson,    Mr.    Justice,    opinion   by, 

13 
Peale,  James,  note  on,  270 

Mary  Claypoole,  note  on,  270 

Pechin,  Almira,  mention  of,  170 

Penn,  Wm.,  letters  of,  ref.  to,  279 

Wm.,  landing  of,  ref.  to,  285 

Wm.,    Black-Letter    Days    in 

the  Life  of,  ref.  to,  285 
Estate,  ref.  to,  30 
Penn-Logan    Correspondence,    ref. 

to,  28 
Penns,    Memorial   to    the,   ref.   to, 

26,  28 
"Penna.  Archives,"  ref.  to,  120 
Pennsylvania    Assembly,    ref.    to, 
200 
Bank,  mentioned,   200 
Bank,  ref.  to,  67 
Battalion  Eiflemen,  ref.  to,  99 
Line,  the  First,  ref.  to,  99 
Line,  the  fourth,  ref.  to,  99 
Penna.  Chronicle,  ref.  to,  42 
Pennsylvania  College,    Gettysburg, 
mentioned,  177 
Co.    for    Ins.    on    Lives    and 
Granting     Annuities,     men- 
tioned, 219,  279 
History  of,  by  Gabriel 

Thomas,  ref.  to,  27 
Hospital,  mentioned,  239 
Penna.   Gazette,   The,   ref.   to,   29, 

-      31,  32,  33,  34,  38,  39,  85 
Pennsylvania  Hospital,  ref.  to,  30, 
32,  34 
Institute,  mentioned,   160 
Journal,  ref.  to,  39 

296 


I9i0totg  ot  ^t  pauPsi  epigfcopal  C^uccJ. 


Pa.  Ifa^.  o/  ffisL  and  Biog.,  ref. 

to,  8,  30,  62,  68,  78,  99 
Penna.  Facket,  The,  note  on,  78 
Penna.   Pacl'et   and  Daily   Adver- 
tiser, mentioned,  270 
Pennsylvania     E.    E.,    mentioned, 
219,  273 
State  Eeports,  ref.  to,  4,  5,  8, 
10,    12,    13,    63,    102    infra, 
189,  190,  191 
Volunteer  Artillery,  1st  Eeg't, 
mentioned,  228 
Penrose,  Capt.  Thos.,  note  on,  33 
Samuel,  note  on,  31 
Ann  Fleeson,  note  on,  31 
Samuel,  account  of,  200 
Samuel,  mention  of,  36 
Perry,  referred  to,  52,  78,  80,  81, 
85,  87,  92,  97 
"Historical  Collections  Eelat- 
ing   to   tlie   American    Colo- 
nial   Church,"    ref.    to,    27, 
28,  100 
"Papers  Eelating  to  the  His- 
tory    of     the      Church     in 
Penna.,"  ref.  to,  46,  53 
Peters,  Eev.  Dr.  Eichard,  mention 
of,  52,  53,  83,  87,  88,  91 
Eev.    Dr.    Eichard,    "has    but 
just  emerged  from  a  life  of 
Polities   and   jjleasure, "    82 
Eev.  Dr.  Eichard,  severs  con- 
nection with  St.  Paul's,  89 
Pew-owners,  rights  of,  11 
Pews,  ownership  of,  61 

ref.  to,  63,  119 
Philadelphia  &  Eeading  E.  E.  Co., 
mentioned,  272 
City     Cavalry,     First     Troop, 

mentioned,  200,  270 
City  Cavalry,  273,  279 
City  Cavalry,  History  of  the, 

ref.  to,  268 
College  of,  ref.  to,  215 
College  of,  mentioned,  29,  45, 
96 


Philadelphia  Divinity  School,  men- 
tioned,   131,    144,   161,   168, 
169 
College  of  Physicians  of,  men- 
tioned, 199,  200 
Corn  Exchange,  mentioned,  220 
County  Prisons,  ref.  to,  231 
Minerva,  ref,  to,  268 
Dispensary,  ref.  to,  33 
Hospital,  ref.  to,  181 
Humane  Soc,  ref.  to,  33 
Eegister  of  Wills,  ref.  to,  33 
Fire  Ins.   Co.,  mentioned,   274 
Militia  of  the  City  and  Liber- 
ties of,  ref.  to,  22 
population  of,  in  1760,  '25 
original  city  of,  25 
when  consolidated,   25 
evacuated  by  the  British,  54 
"if    it    was    50    miles    square 
and  had  200  churches  in  it," 
what  then?  82 
City    Gaol    (jail),    poor    pris- 
oners    in,     aided     by     St. 
Paul's,   85 
captured  by  Gen'l  Howe,  92, 

93 
National  Bank,  mention  of,  73 
P.    E.    City    Mission,    ref.    to, 

209 
Post  Office,  note  on,  42 
Sa'sang  Fund  Soc,  ref.  to,  279 
Sunday-school  Union,  by  whom 
instituted,  166 
Philada.  Eecord,  notice  of,  42 
PJiila.    Eecorder,    The,    quoted    in 
ref.   to   consecration   of   St. 
Andrew's,  129 
Philadelphians,  well  known,  where 
buried,  5-7 
well  known,  ref.  to,  158 
opinions  of,  in  regard  to  Dr. 
Smith,  83 
Phile,    Dr.    Frederick,    notice    of, 
239,  240 
Elizabeth,   notice   of,   239 

297 


Snticj  to  &uDject!2i. 


Phillips    Andover    Academy,    men- 
tioned, 135 
Phillips,    Col.    John,    mention    of, 

111 

Phoenix  Hose  Co.,  mentioned,  220 

Physick,  Dr.  Edmund,  note  on,  118 

Pilmore,    Mary    (Benezet)    Wood, 

note  on,  124 

Eev.  Joseph,  mention  of,  276 

Eev.  Dr.  Joseph,  portrait  of, 

facing  p.  113 
Eev.    Dr.    Joseph,    Eectorship 

of,  113-124 
Eev.    Dr.    Joseph,    appointed 
assist.      minister      at      St. 
Paul's,  116 
Eev.  Dr.  Joseph,  preaching  of, 

118,  120 
Eev.  Dt.  Joseph,  his  breadth 

of  vision,  120 
Eev.  Dr.  Joseph,  creator  of  St. 
Paul's    Sunday-school,    120, 
164 
Eev.  Dr.  Joseph,  publications 
of,  123 
Poor,  John,  educator,  ref.  to,  101, 

102,    106 
Potter,  Et.  Eev.  Dr.  Horatio,  letter 
to,    by    Stephen    H.    Tyng, 
ref.  to,  138 
Poulson's   Am.   Daily   Advertiser, 

ref.  to,  115,  124 
Poulson's   Daily   Advertiser,   men- 
tioned, 270 
Poyntell,  Wm.,  account  of,  276 
Prendergast,  Eev.  Edmond  F.,  his 

appeal,   15 
Presbyterian     Church,     Pine     St., 
Sale  of,  prevented,  15 
Hospital,  mentioned,  181 
Church,   Third,   ref.   to,   33 
Church,     Second,     where     lo- 
cated, 40,  164 
Synod  in  Philadelphia,  46 
Congreg.,  the  Second,  note  on, 
122 


Presbyterians,  ref.  to,  50,  56,  57, 

71,  77,  84 
Presentation,  right   of,   rests  with 

the  Church,  87 
Princeton,  ref.  to,  67 

College,  ref.  to,  40 
Proctor,  Col.  Thos.,  member  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  4,  106 

Col.  Thos.,  where  buried,  4 

Col.  Thos.,  account  of,  22 

Col.  Thos.,  ref.  to,  23,  106 

Col.  Thos.,  satirized  by  Major 
Andre,  93 
Protestant    Churchman,    the,    men- 
tioned, 138 
Protestant      Episcopal      Academy, 
ref.  to,  32,  147,  169 

Episcopal  Church,  ref.  to,  28, 
32,  34,  123,  144,  156,  176, 
181,  182,  187,  193 

Epicsopal  Church  organiza- 
tion of,  102,  103,  115 

Episcopal  Church,  its  name,  to 
whom  owed,  103 

Episcopal  Church,  1st  Gen'l 
Conv.  of,  105 

Episcopal  Church,  at  Corry, 
Pa.,  mentioned,  171 

Episcopal  Church,  Diocese  Pa., 
Trustees  of,  ref.  to,  208, 
209,  286 

Episcopal  Church,  Philadel- 
phia, excerpts  from  the 
minutes  of  the,  214,  215 

Episcopal  City  Mission,  men- 
tion of,  3,  17,  188,  190,  191, 
192 

Episcopal  City  Mission,  effi- 
cient relief  work  of,  4 

Episcopal  Soc.  for  Domestic 
and  Foreign  Missions,  men- 
tioned, 129 

Episcopal  Sunday  School  Soe. 
of  Philadelphia,  mentioned, 
228 
Proverbs  xxiii,  15,  quoted,  137 


298 


l^ijStorg  of  S)t  paur^  Cpisfcopal  C8urc5. 


Provincial  Conventioii,  ref.  to,  200 
Provoost,  Eev.  Samuel,  consecrated 

as  Bishop  of  N.  Y    104 
Psalm  92 :  6,  ref.  to,  16 
Psalm,  112,  V,  6,  quoted,  224,  231 
Psalm,  10,  V.  7,  quoted,  231 
Pulpit  and   Communion  Silver,  il- 

lustr.  of,  facing  p.  210 
Puritans,  ref.  to,  56 

Quakers,  ref.  to,  26,  47,  48,  49,  56, 

57,  80,  127 
Quarry,  Col.,  mention  of,  27 
Quarterly  Meeting,  the  first,  ^'hen 

and  where  celebrated,  98 
Queen    Anne     Parish,    mentioned, 

135 

Radnor  Parish,  mentioned,  234 
Eeichner,  L.  Irving,  notice  of,  '244 
Eandall,  Joseph  C,  notice  of,  250 
Caroline  West,  notice  of,  250 
Edmund,  notice  of,  250 
Eenshaw,    Eichard,    Jr.,    note    on, 

276 
Eaikes,  Eobert,  note   on,   122 
Eailroad  Law,  ref.  to,  13 
Eeed,  Anna  G.  Everly,  note  on,  169 
Eev.  Dr.  J.  Sanders,   account 
of,  169 
Eeformed  Church,  ref.  to,  57 
Eeily,  John,  account  of,  33 
Ee-interment,  Act  of  Assembly  as 

to,  17,  18,  189 
Eeligious  Bodies,  growth  of,  57 
congregation     is     a     private 

body,  14 
life  of  St.  Paul's  Parishioners, 

58  seq. 
society,     to     every,     absolute 
ownership  of  its  property  is 
confirmed,  190 
Eenshaw,  Eichard,  mention  of,  36, 

137 
Revelation  14,  v.   13,  quoted,  224, 
231,  263 


Revolution,  ref.  to,  23,  30,  31,  32, 
33,  54,  90,  93  seq.,  102 
ref.    to,    200,    239,    240,    270, 

275,  286 
Sons  of  the.  Pa.  Soc,  ref.  to, 
22 
Ehinelander,   Et.   Rev.    Philip   M., 
considers  sale  of  St.  Paul's, 
3 
Eiehmond,  Va.,  its  ancient  name, 

49 
Eidgley,  Nicholas,  mention  of,  97 
Mary    Vining,    mention    of, 
97 
Eobins,  Edward,  notice  of,  73 

Edward,  of  Phila.,  notice  of, 

73 
Thos.,  notice  of,  72 
Isabella    McClenachan,    notice 

of,  72 
Thos.,  notice  of,  73 
Eoche,  Eev.  Dr.  Robert  T.,  rector- 
ship of,  174,  175 
Rev.   Dr.   Robert   T.,   portrait 
of,  facing  p.  173 
Rodney,  Caesar,  mention  of,  100 
Romaine,  Rev.  Wm.,  notice  of,  75, 

87 
Roman  Catholic  Church,  ref.  to,  15, 

20,  57,  181 
Ross,  Capt.  Chas.,  where  buried,  15 
Geo.,  notice  of,  29 
John,  account  of,  29,  30 
John,  ref.  to,  34,   36,  49,   50, 

51,  52 
John,  in  relation  to  Articles  of 

Agreement,  47 
Rev.  Geo.,  note  on,  29 
Rowley,  Richard,   note   on,  61,   62 

Jane  B.,  note  on,  62 
Royal     Geographical     Soc,     men- 
tioned, 179 
Runk,     Louis     B.,     ' '  Fort    Louis- 
burg,"  ref.  to,  67 
Russia  Company,  The  Worshipful, 
mentioned,  224 


299 


3ntie£  to  ^ubittt^. 


Kush,  Dr.  Benjamin,  "Memoirs,"       St. 
ref.  to,  111 

Saehse,  Dr.  J.  F.,  "Old  Masonic 
Lodges  in  Penna.,  Moderns 
and  Ancients,"  ref.  to,  34        St. 
Dr.  J.  F.,  "The  German  Sec- 
taries of  Penna.,"  ref.  to,      St. 
122 
Sacredness  of  Burial  Grounds,  IS- 
IS 
St.  Andrew's  Church,  note  on,  43, 
73,  127,  129,  139,  146 
Church,  mentioned,  228  St. 

Eichmond,   N.   Y.,   mentioned, 

159 
Society  of  Philadelphia,  The, 

ref.  to,  31,  33  St. 

Va.,  mentioned,  128 
West  Philadelphia,  171 
Wilmington,    Del.,    mentioned,       St. 
168 
St.  Ann 's  Church,  ref.  to,  69  St. 

Fishkill,     N.     Y.,     mentioned, 

158 
London,  mention  of,  75 
St.    Augustine,    R.    C.    Church    of, 
ref.  to,  41 
St.     David 's,     Radnor,     men- 
tioned, 234  St, 
Radnor,  mentioned,  131 
St.  Elizabeth's  Church,  mentioned,      St. 

ISO 
St.  George,  Society  of  the  Sons  of,      St. 
ref.  to,  30,  122,  123 
iSoe.    of   Sons    of,    mentioned,      St. 
199 
St.     George's,    Georgetown,    men- 
tioned, 135 
N.  Y.,  mentioned,  138 
M.  E.  Church,  by  whom  estab- 
lished, 114 
St.  James  at  Kingsessing,  ref.  to, 
26 
Pittston,  Pa.,  mentioned,  175 
Perkiomen,  mentioned,  234 

300 


James  College,  Md.,  mentioned, 
168 

Memorial,   Eatontown,   N.    J., 
mentioned,  175 

R.  C.  Church,  mentioned,  181 

John  the   Evangelist,  ref.   to, 

100,  105,  107  seq.,  121 
John's  Chapel,  mentioned,  169 

Church,  ref.  to,  5,  168 

Church,  Clifton,   N.   Y.,  men- 
tioned, 177 

Northern  Liberties,  mentioned, 

146 
Luke's,  Bustleton,  ref.  to,  167 

Church,  note  on,  43,  138,  147, 
154,   169,   178 

Church,  mentioned,  220 

Mark's  Church,  Palatka,  Fla., 
mentioned,  174 

Church,  Phila.,  mentioned,  177 
Martin's  Church,  ref.  to,  72 

Marcus  Hook,  ref.  to,  231 

Mary's  Cathedral  Church,  ref. 
to,  286 

Cathedral  Church  of,  ref.  to,  3 

W.     Philadelphia,    mentioned, 
144 

Memorial    Church,   mentioned, 
178 

Mary,    Sisterhood     of,    men- 
tioned, 180 
Matthew's  Church,  Francisville, 
note  on,  43 

Patrick,  ' '  History  of  Friendly 

Sons  of, ' '  ref.  to,  78 
Paul's,  built  for  the  Propaga- 
tion of  Principles  of  Estab- 
lished Church,  34 

incorporated,  36,  101 

lottery,  37  seq. 

title  deeds,  abstracts  of,  206- 
•209 

Cheltenham,  44,  153,  155 

Chester,  Pa.,  mention  of,  9 

Chestnut  Hill,  mentioned,  190 

Church  Edifice,  illustr.  of,  1 


^i0torp  ot  ^t  paurgs  CpiiScopal  Cfiutc|^» 


St.  Paul's  Church  Entrance  Gate,      St. 

illustr.  of.  2 
Church,   appeal   for    preserva- 
tion of,  3-24 
Church,  location  of,  3 
Church,  sale  of,  considered,  3 
Church     Bldg.     and     Family 

Vaults,  illustr.  of,  3 
Churchyard,  illustr.  of,  4 
history,  request  for,  19,  24 
suggestions   as  to   disposition 

of,  20,  21 
dead,  debt  to,  21-23 
Church  Eegisters,  ref.  to,  212, 

213,  218,  220,  227,  230,  234, 

243,  267 
Church  opened  for  worship,  41 
rules  of  vestry,  41 
sexton's  duties,  41,  42 
largest  church  in  the  Province, 

43 
formally  incorporated,  43 
consecrated,  43,  116,  136 
mother   of  many  parishes,  43 
a  religious  storm  center,  44 
Detroit,  mentioned,  141 
Font,  illustr.  of,  facing  p.  45 
Font,    with    baptismal    bowl, 

facing  p.  47 
erected  for  the   defense  of  a 

free  gospel,  47 
thoroughly  American,  49 
crowded  to  the  doors,  53 
contribution    to    formation    of 

Am.  Episcopal  Church,  63 
Centennial     Anniversary,     63, 

64,  155 
fourth  diocesan  convention  at, 

105 
people    visited    by    epidemic, 

list  of,  117 
Keeords  of,  ref.  to,  120 
interested  in  foreign  missions, 

146 
picture  of  interior,  facing  p. 

147 

301 


Paul's  prayer  meetings,  ref.  to, 
147 

Societies  of,  148 

Children's  church,  150 

Missionary  Sunday,  ref.  to, 
152 

petition  to  dftsolve  corpora- 
tion, 181  scq. 

organization  of,  25 

by  whom  formed,  28 

last  survivor  of  original  trus- 
tees of,  32 

agreements,  by  whom  drawn,  34 

corporate  title  of,  34 

one  of  the  founders  of  the  P. 
E.  Church,  34 

Pulpit  and  Communion  Silver, 
illustr.  of,  facing  p.  210 

Church  Plate  described,  210, 
211 

Church  and  Churchyard,  plan 
of,  between  pp.  216  and  217 

charities  of,  remembered,  231 

vestrymen,  list  of,  269-280 

vestry  minutes,  ref.  to,  269 

Queen  Anne  Co.,  Md.,  ref.  to, 
79,  81 

Rectors,  list  of,  64,  65 

"had  some  invinceahle  rea- 
sons against  Dr.  Smith," 
82 

Gift  to  Eev.  Hugh  Neill,  84, 
85 

conduct  of  parishioners  of,  at 
breaking  out  of  Revolution, 
92 

parishioners  with  Washing- 
ton's army,  93 

in  rel.  to  organization  of  P. 
E.  Church,  102  seq. 

School,  Concord,  N,  H.,  men- 
tioned, 168 

Smyrna,  ref.  to,  98 

near  Md.  line,  ref.  to,  98 

Sunday-school,  am't  of  money 


Untitt  to  ^ubiectisi. 


annually  collected  by,  and 
how  applied,  170,  171,  172 
St.  Paul's  Sunday  School,  ref,  to, 
44,  60,  120,  122,  142,  150, 
151,  152,  159,  163^167 

Sunday  School,  testimony  to 
Rev.  Benj.  Allen,  130 

Sunday  School,  it:;  Fiftieth 
Anniv.,  ref.  to,  142,  163 
seq. 

Sunday  School,  distinguished 
pupils  of,   152,   167   seq. 

Sunday  Schools,  ref.  to,  222 

title  to  lot  of,  in  whom 
vested,  188 

Buck  Creek,  ref.  to,  97 

Delaware,   O.,  mentioned,   175 

Great  Valley,  mentioned,   234 

St.  Peter's  Church  mention 
of,  7,  9,  41,  43,  49,  50,  85, 
136,  147,  162,  172,  186,  187, 
188,  190,  208',  209,  276,  277 

incepted,  when  and  where,  25, 
26 

opened,  when,  26 

united  with  Christ  Church,  26 

Parish,  "  Sesquicentennial 
Year  Book,"  ref.  to,  26, 
106 

requested   to   take   over  prop- 
erty of  St,  Paul's,  182,  183, 
184 
St.  Philip's  Church,  note  on,  43 
St.  Stephen 's,  Cecil  Co.,  Md.,  men- 
tioned, 27 

Wilkes-Barre,  mentioned,  144 
St.  Tammany,  Sons  of,  ref.  to,  22 
St.   Timothy's   Church,  mentioned, 

174 
St.     Thomas,     Whitemarsh,     men- 
tioned, 115,  121 

Eavenswood,  L.  I.,  mentioned, 
176 
Salvation  Army,  ref.  to,  56 
Samuel  Powel  House,  The,  note  on, 
118 


Sansom    St.    Union    Prayer    Meet- 
ings, ref.  to,   147 
Saviour,  Church  of  the,  mentioned, 

169 
Sayres,  Edward  S.,  notice  of,  101 
Scharf  and  Westcott,  ref.  to,  275 
Scharf  and  Westcott 's  "Hist,  of 

Phila.,"  ref.  to,  102,  133 
Scharf 's  "History  of  Delaware," 

ref.  to,  97,  98 
Schubert,    autograph    of,    ref.    to, 

279 
Scripture,  interpretation  of,  75 
Seabury,    Rt.    Rev.    Samuel,    men- 
tion of,  56,  105,  115 
Rt.  Rev.  Samuel,  subscribes  to 

Constitution,  214 
ref.  to,  215 
Sellers,   Edwin   Jaquett,   "Geneal- 
ogy   of    the    Kollock    Fam- 
ily," ref.  to,  265 
Seeker,  Rev.,  letter  to,  in  re  Mr. 

Whitefield's  preaching,  53 
Seckle,  Lawrence,  mention  of,  276 
Sellers,  Wm.,  notice  of,  33 
Sepoy  War,  ref.  to,  97 
Sepulture,  duty  of  providing,  4,  5 
Sewell,  Rev.  Rich.,  notice  of,  27 
Sharp,  Gov.,  ref.  to,  81,  84 
Sharswood,    Justice,     opinion    by, 
ref.  to,  4 
Justice,  opinion  of,  in  re  Lot- 
holders,  10,  11 
Shaw,  Capt.,  notice  of,  217 

Elizabeth    Palmer,    notice    of, 
217 
Shee,  Col.  John,  notice  of,  33 

Walter,  account  of,  33 
Sheetz,  Christian,  mention  of,  111 
Shiras,  Rev.  Alexander,  "Life  and 
Letters  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Jas. 
May,"  ref.  to,  144 
Shirley,    Gov.,    in    ref.    to    ordina- 
tion   of   the   Rev.    Mr.   Mc- 
Clenachan,  67 
Gov.,  ref.  to,  73 


302 


^i&toti^  of  fe)t.  ^mV0  episcopal  Cfiurc]^. 


Shober,    Susannah    B.,    notice    of, 

164 
"iShockoes, "      former      name      of 
Eichmond,  Va.,   ref .    to, "  49 
Shoemaker,  Joseph  M.,  mention  of, 

278 
Shute,  Atwood,  note  of,  34 

Wm.,  account  of,  34 
Silk  Stocking  Company,  mentioned, 

118 
Simpson,    Henry,    ' '  The    Lives    of 
Eminent  Philadelphians  now 
deceased,"  ref.  to,  228 
Simpson's     "Lives     of     Eminent 
Philadelphians, ' '     ref.     to, 
158 
Slyhoof,  Maria,  mention  of,  '276 
Sarah,  mention  of,  276 
Michael,  mention  of,   276 
Margaret,  mention  of,  276 
Small 's    ' '  Genealogical   Eecords, ' ' 

ref.  to,  124 
Smith,  Eev.  Dr.  Wm.,  his  account 
of  Mr.  MoClenaehan 's  fol- 
lowers, 47,  48 
Eev.  Dt.  Wm.,  letter  in  ref.  to 

Eev,  Dr.  Jacob  Duehe,  49 
Eev.  Dr.  Wm.,  ref.  to,  51,  52, 
80,   82,   83,   84,   86,   87,   88, 
91,  214 
Eev.  Dr.  Wm.,  "no  Clergyman 

more    disagreeable, ' '    83 
Eev.    Dr.    Wm.,    "refusal    of, 
an  unpardonable  crime,"  83 
Eev.    Dr.   Wm.,   letter   to   the 
Bishop   of   London,    76,    77, 
78 
Eev.    Dr.    Wm.,    "Life    and 
Correspondence  of,"  ref.  to, 
76,  77 
Eev.    Dr.    Wm.,    portrait    of, 

facing  p.  77 
Eev.    Dr.    Wm.,    letter    to,    in 

ref.  to  Mr.  Neill,  81 
Eev.    Dr.    Wm.,   letter    of,   in 

ref.  to  Mr.  Magaw,  96 
Eev.    Dr.    Wm.,    calls    conven- 


tion of  Md.  clergy,  Am.  P. 
E.  church,  103 
Smith,  Eev.  Dr.  Wm.,  chosen  bishop 

of  Md.,    103 
Smith's  Laws,  ref.  to,  40 
Society  Hill,  origin  of  name,  25 
for  Propagating  the  Gospel  in 
Foreign    Parts,    mentioned, 
10,   46,   49,   67,   70,   71,   79, 
84,  86,  88,  90,  96,  174 
for    the,    see    also    Venerable 

Soc. 
of     Antiquarians     of     Edin- 
burgh, mentioned,  179 
of  the  P.   E.  Church  for  the 
Advancement   of  Christian- 
ity in  Pa.,  mentioned,  '200 
Springer,  Geo.,  mention  of.  111 
Spurgeon,  ref.  to,  151 
Stamp   and   Quartering   Acts,   ref. 

to,  75 
Standley,  Wm.,  notice  of,  276 

Wm.,     grandson,     mentioned, 

276 
Eichard,  mentioned,  276 
Hugh,  mentioned,  276 
Elizabeth    Fulton,    mentioned, 
276 
Stanley,  Capt.  Norris,  mention  of, 
3 
Norris,  account  of,  231 
State  has  right  to  regulate  use  of 
all  property,  11 
and  Church,  the  former  must 
exercise    its    control    some- 
times, 63 
policy     of,     with     resi^ect    to 
tenure  of  property  held  by 
religious  societies,  190 
House,  Sale  of,  authorized,  8 
House,     in     relation     to     St. 

Paul's,  28 
House,  ref.  to,  29,  46,  51,  71, 
93,  111,  114,  214,  215 
Statutes  at  Large  of  Penna.,  ref. 
to,  40 


303 


Sntitj  to  ^uhint^* 


Stevenson,    Cornelius,    account    of, 
228 
Cornelius,   portrait   of,   facing 

p.  228 
Mary  May,  notice  of,  228 
Wm.,  Sr,,  notice  of,  228 
Ann  Groebe,  notice  of,  228 
Wm.,  notice  of,  228 
Cornelius,  notice  of,  130 
Stevens,  Eev.  Dr,  Chas.  Ellis,  rec- 
torship of,  179,  180 
Eev.   Dr.  Chas.   Ellis,  portrait 

of,  facing  p.  180 
Ella  M.  A.,  notice  of,  180 
Rt.  Eev.,  on  Bishop  White,  74 
Et.  Eev.,  mentioned,  147 
Stewart,  Henry,  notice  of,  68 
Mary  Ann,  notice  of,  68 
Caroline,  notice  of,  68 
Washington,  notice  of,  68 
Eobert,  notice  of,  68 
Gen.  Walter,  children  of,  68 
Walter,  notice  of,  68 
Wm.,  notice  of,  68 
Story  &  Humphreys,  Printers,  men- 
tion of,  99 
Stotesbury,     Arthur,     account     of. 
220 
Eichard  G.,  notice  of,  220 
Eichard  G.,  notice  of,  277 
James  M.,  notice  of,  277 
Mary  Ann,  notice  of,  277 
Stringer,  Eev.  Wm.,  rectorship  of, 
86-95 
Eev.  Wm.,  "ordained  irregu- 
larly," 87 
Eev.  Wm.,  applied  to  by  St. 

Paul's  Congregation,   88 
Eev.    Wm.,    his    evening    lec- 
tures, and  action  of  Lodge 
No.  2,  90 
Eev.  Wm,,  validity  of  his  or- 
dination questioned,  90 
Eev.    Wm.,    rendered    persona 
non  grata  to  St.  Paul's,  90 
Eev.   Wm.,    dissolution   of  his 


connection   with   St.   Paul's 

92  seq. 

Sturgeon,  Eev.  Wm.,  note  on,  50 

Eev.    Wm.,    his    view    of    St. 

Paul's  Congregation,  50,  51 

Eev.    Wm.,    on    Mr.    MeClen- 

achan's  Eloquence,  51 
Eev.    Wm.,    on   his    dismissal 
from  Christ  Church,  51,  52 
Eev.  Wm.,  ref.  to,  53,  70,  71 
Sunday,  Observance  of,  60  seq. 
Sunday-school  Ass'n  P.  E.  Church, 
organization  of,  170 
mentioned,   171 
Supreme  Court  of  Pa.,  ref.  to,  8, 
12,  13,  190 
Court  of  U.  S.,  ref.  to,  9,  54 
Court  of  Va.,  ref.  to,  192 
Susquehanna  Coal  Co.,  ref.  to,  5,  12 
Swanwick,  John,  notice  of,  277 
Swedish  Settlers,  ref.  to,  32 
Swift,  John,  note  on,  133 

Tammany,  Sons  of  St.,  ref.  to,  22 
Tennant,  Eev.  Gilbert,  ref.  to,  46 
Thefts,     mysterious,     enumerated, 

42,  43 
Thirty-nine  Articles,  The,  ref.  to, 
35,  73,   88 
Articles,  ref.  to,  195,  197 
Thomas,   John   W.,   notice   of,   44, 
163 
Gabriel,     his     publication     of 

1698,  ref.  to,  27 
Geo.  Clifford,  account  of,  277, 

278,  279 
John  W.,  notice  of,  277 
Ada  E.   Moorhead,  notice   of, 

278 
Geo.  C,  his  charity  lauded,  44 
Geo.  C,  Memorial  Church,  ref. 

to,  44 
Geo.     C,     organized     Sunday- 
school  Ass'n  P.  E.   Church, 
170 
"History      of      Printing      in 
America, ' '  ref.  to,  78 


304 


I^isitotg  ot  felt  paurgi  Cpigicopal  C^uccli, 


Thomas,    Library,    famous    works 
therein,  mentioned,  278- 
Rev.     Eieh'd     Newton,     men- 
tion of,  44 
Title  Deeds,  abstracts  of,  206  seq. 
Tories,  mention  of,  94,  97 
Towne,  Benjamin,  mention  of,  36 
Traders,  Free  Society  of,  ref.  to, 

25 
Transfiguration,     Church     of    the, 

mentioned,  177 
Trenton,  ref.  to,  67 
Trinity   Church,   N.   Y.  City,   ref. 
to,  97 
Georgetown,  mentioned,  174 
Church,    Oxford,    ref.    to,    40, 

79,  115,  121 
Church,  Sharon  Springs,  men- 
tioned, 163 
Church,    Watertown,    men- 
tioned, 169 
Episcopal  Church,  ref.  to,   18 
Toland,  Henry,  Jr.,  notice  of,  219 
Henry,  Sr.,  notice  of,  219 
Mary  Huston,  notice  of,  219 
Sarah,  Barnhill,  notice  of,  219 
Robert,  notice  of,  219 
Trenton,  battle  of,  ref.  to,  268 
Trinity  Church,  N.  Y.,  mentioned, 

250 
Tun   Tavern    Lodge,   its   place    of 

meeting,    33 
Turner,  Joseph,  mention  of,  36 
Twells,    Sarah    Standley,    mention 
of,  276,  279 
Godfrey,  mention  of,  276 
Elizabeth,  mention  of,  276 
Godfrey,  account  of,  279 
Elizabeth,  mention  of,  '279 
Godfrey,  Jr.,  mention  of,  279 
Standley,  mention  of,  279 
Edward,  mention  of,  279 
Sarah  W.  C,  mention  of,  279 
Richard,  mention   of,   279 
Tyndale's  New  Testament,  ref.  to, 

278 
Tyng,  Rev.  Dr.,  mentioned,  269 

21  305 


Tyng,  Ann  De  Wolf  Griswold,  notice 
of,  138 

Rev.  Dudley  A.,  mention  of, 
135,  139,  147 

Rev.  Dudley  A.,  notice  of, 
137,  140,  168 

Rev.  Dudley  A.,  Memorial 
meeting  in  honour  of,  ref. 
to,  159 

Rev.  Dr;  Stephen  H.,  is  author- 
ity for  remarkable  state- 
ment, 47 

Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.,  sermon 
of,  at  consecration  St. 
Paul's,  ref.  to,  116 

Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.,  portrait 
of,  facing  p.  135 

Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.,  rector- 
ship of,  135-140 

Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.,  chief 
printed  works   of,   138   seq. 

Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.,  men- 
tioned, 145,  146,  159,  163 

Susan  W.  Mitchell,  note  on, 
138 

Union  College,  mentioned,  172 
United   Congregations    Christ   and 
St.    Peter's    Churches,    ref. 
to,  51,  52,  53,  87,  102,  112 
Congregations,   the   clergy  of, 
interest    themselves    in    St. 
Paul's,  90 
Union  League,  mentioned,  163,  220, 
279 
Pacific  R.  R.   Co.,  mentioned, 

274 
School  and  Children's   Home, 
mentioned,  171 
United  States,  the  making  of  the, 
ref.  to,  49 
observes   Washington 's    birth- 
day, 110 
Navy,  ref.  to,  169 
Bank,  mentioned,  219 
First  Bank,  mentioned,  228 
Z7.  S.  Gazette,  quoted,  217 


3lnti«  to  ^ubiett^. 


University  of  the  City  of  N.  Y.,       Washington,  Gen,  Geo.,  officers  in 


mentioned,  179 

of  Wooster,  O.,  mentioned, 
180 

of  Penna.,  mentioned,  29,  32, 
52,  73,  96,  101,  103,  123, 
142,  145,  147,  154,  155,  158, 
161,  168,  177,  178,  179,  199, 
200,  215 

Hospital,  mentioned,   181 

Valley  Forge,  sale  of,  proposed,  8 
winter  quarters  at,  93 
Centennial      and      Memorial 
Ass'n  of,  ref.  to,  189 
Van   Brunt,   Rutgers,   mention    of, 

99 
Vault,  every,  a  sacred  depository, 

18 
Venerable   Soc,   letter   to,    rel.    to 
St.   Paul's,  81 
Soc,  ref.  to,  84,  90,  96,  100 
Soc,    see    also    Soc.    Propag. 
Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts. 
Versailles    in    the    time    of    Louis 

XIV.,  ref.  to,  49 
Vestry,    minutes    of    the,    ref.    to, 

269 
Vestrymen,  List  of,  269-280 
Vining,  Capt.  Benjamin,  notice  of, 
97 
Mary,  notice  of,  97 
Virginia      Theological      Seminary, 

mentioned,  144 
Voigt,  Henry,  mention  of,   111 

Wagner,  Richard,  mention  of,  278, 

279 
Walsh,  Stevenson   Hockley,   notice 

of,  228 
Washington,  Gen'l  Geo.,  notice  of, 
200 
"Farewell  Address"   of,  ref. 

to,  270 
patriotic  appeal  of,  279 
Martha,  note  on,  278 


forces  of,  4 

letter  of,  commending  City 
Troop,  ref.  to,  4 

his  headquarters  at  Valley 
Forge,  ref.  to,  8 

ref.  to,  22,  50,  68,  91,  97,  106, 
118,  139,  172 

Gen.  Geo.,  crossed  Delaware, 
67 

Gen.  Geo.,  defeated  at  Bran- 
dywine,  92 

Gen.  Geo.,  defeated  at  Ger- 
mantown,  93 

Gen.  Geo.,  victorious  at  York- 
town,   94 

Gen.  Geo.,  styled  "Cinein- 
natus,"  100 

Gen,  Geo.,  thanked  by  Grand 
Lodge  of  donation  to  poor, 
106 

Gen.  Geo.,  his  birthday  ob- 
served, 110 

Gen.  Geo.,  when  initiated  into 
Free  Masonry,  139 

Mary,  note  on,  192 

College,  Md.,  mention  of,  103 

Grays    Artillery    Corps,    men- 
tioned, 160 
Wayne,    Gen.    Anthony,    suggests 
Valley    Forge    winter    quar- 
ters, 93 
Wesley,  Rev.  John,  mention  of,  56, 

113,   114,   115 
West,  Capt.  Josiah,  notice  of,  250 

Mary  Gould,  notice  of,  250 

Caroline,  notice  of,  250 

Westcott,     Thompson,     ' '  Historic 

Mansions  and  Buildings  of 

Phila.,"  ref.  to,  22 

"Westover"    Plantation,    ref.    to, 

49 
West     Point     Military     Academy, 

mentioned,  141 
Wharton,   Anne    H.,   "Salons   Co- 


306 


m&totTf  ot  §)t  paursi  episcopal  CSutcj; 


lonial  and  Eepublican, ' '  ref . 
to,  94 
Wharton,  mention  of,  231 
Robert,  mention  of,  8 
Whelen,  Henry,  Jr.,  note  on,  62 
Laura  Baker,   note   on,   62 
Wldskey   Insurrection,  ref.   to,   22, 

270 

White,  Eev.  Dt.  Wm.,  referred  to, 

54,  91,  98 

Eev.    Dr.    Wm.,    chosen    Pres. 

first   Gen'l   Convention,   103 

Et.  Eev.  Dr.  Wm.,  consecrated 

St.  Paul's,  43,  136 
Rt.  Eev.  Dr.  Wm.,  ref.  to,  56, 
73,    74,    95,    106,    111,    138, 
141,  143,   147,   156 
Et.     Eev.     Dr.     Wm.,     "Me- 
moirs," ref.  to,  102 
Et.  Eev.  Dr.  Wm.,  portrait  of, 

facing  p.  104 
Et.     Eev.     Dr.     Wm.,     conse- 
crated Bishop,  104 
Et.   Eev.   Dr.   Wm.,   holds    1st 

ordination,  104 
Et.     Rev.     Dr.     Wm.,     "Me- 
moirs," ref.  to,  106 
Whitefield,  Eev.   Geo.,  ref.  to,  47, 
73,  75,   76,  77,  86 
Rev.  Geo.,  his  coming  to  Phil- 
adelphia, 52,  53 
Rev.  Geo.,  preaches  at  Christ, 
St.  Peter's  and  St.  Paul's 
Churches,  53 
Rev.  Geo.,  where  he  died,  53 
Whiting,  Beverley,   notice  of,  126 

Betsy,  notice  of,  1'26 
Wilkinson,  Anthony,  notice  of,  271 


Wilkinson,  Elizabeth,  notice  of,  271 

Ann,   notice   of,   271 
Williams,  John,  martyr,  mentioned, 
152 
Rt.  Rev.,  mentioned,  54 
Willing,   Capt.  Chas.,  mention  of, 
270 
Morris   &   Swanwick,   mention 
of,  277 
Wilmer,  Lambert,  notice  of,  199 
Wilson,  Jas,,  note  on,  118 

Wm.  Currie,  notice  of,  234 
James,  notice  of,  273 
Mary,  notice  of,  273 
Wilson's   "Life    of   White,"    ref. 

to,  106 
Wood,  John,  notice  of,  199 

John,   member    of    the    Grand 

Lodge,  4 
John,  where  buried,  4 
John,  mention  of,  23,  36,  105 
Joseph,  note  on,  124 
Woodland     Cemetery,     mentioned, 
219,  265 
Cemetery  Co.,  ref.  to,  5 

Yale  College,  mentioned,  179,  180 
Yellow    Fever,    ref.    to,    200,    234, 

273 
Fever,    mention    of,    28,    111, 

116,  118,  143 
Young,  John,  mention  of,  36 

Zion   Ev.    Lutheran    Church,   men- 
tioned, 111 
German    Ref.    Congreg.,    men- 
tioned, 189 


307 


•  *  • 


INDEX  TO  NAMES. 


Abbott,  Edward,  269 

Abraham,  14,  15 

Adams,  J.  M.,  164 

Adamson,  Eev.   Wm.   S.,   65,   176, 

177 
Agnew,  Daniel,  13-15 
Aikman,  Walter  Monteith,  180 

Ella  Monteith,  180 
Albright,  189 
Alexander,  5 

Christiana,  170,  236 

Jas.,  3,  254,  255 

Elizabeth,  254 

Margaret,  255 

Eiehard,  3,  235 

Wm.,  164 

Eachel  P.,  221 

Ann  C,  235 

Eiehard  C,  '235 

Eiehard  J.,  236 

Wm..,  254,  269 

Eachel,  254 
Allen,  5,  165 

Eev.   Benjamin,   Jr.,   65,    120, 
125-134,  165,  216,  217,  232 

Eev.  Dr.  Thos.  G.,  165 

Mary  Ann  C.  A.,  232 

Benjamin,  232 
Allison,  Joseph,  10 
Ameran,  Jane,  117 
Anderson,  5 

Ann,  238 

James  B.,  269 


Anderson,  Wm.,  238 

Mary,  238 
Andrews,  96 
Armat,  5 

Thos.  Wright,  248 

Mary,  252 
Arrowsmith,  J.,  27 
Aspinwall,  Wm.  H.,  160 
Auber,  5 

Jas.,  224,  225 

Babb,  5 

Jane,  248 
Bache,  Eiehard,  122 
Baker,  Geo.  A.,  122 
Bankson,   Andw.,   29,   32,   39,   206, 
207,  208,  269 

Deborah,  32 

Martha,  31 

Sarah  Allen,  32 

Jacob,  32 

John,  3'2 

John  P.,  7,  122,  164 

Lloyd,  164 
Barbazett,  James,  255 

James,  255 
Barger,  Elizabeth  Donaven,  239 
Barker,  5 

John,  Jr.,  243 
Barnes,   5 

Eeachel,  246 

Joseph,   122 
Barratt,  5 


308 


^^igftotg  ot  fe»t  ^mV0  CpfiScopal  CSutcfi, 


Barratt,  James,  255 

James,  Jr.,  220 

Mary  Irvine,  4 

Norris  Stanley,  24,  255,  281 

PMlip,  27 

Philip,  Jr.,  27 
Barton,  Dr.,  96 

Thos.,  45,  92 
Bartram,  5 

Alexander,  269 

George,  269 

Jolin,  M.D.,  227 

Sarah  S.,  227 

Eobert,  255 
Bason,  J.,  164 
Bates,  John,  199,  269 
Batwelle,  Daniel,  92 
Bayard,  Mrs.,  145 

Thos.  F,,  145 
Bayne,  Eobert,  245 

Samuel  P.,  245 
Baynton,  Elizabeth  Bullock,  200 

Elizabeth  Chevalier,  30 

Mary  Budd,  30 

Peter,  30,  200 
Baynton,  John,  29,  206,  207,  269 
Beach,  Edmund,  29 
Beaks,  Joseph,  237 

Jane,  237 

Capt.  Joseph,  237 

Elizabeth,  237 

Sarah,  237 
Beale,  J.  L.,  269 
Bearcroft,  Eev.  Dr.,  69,  70,  71 
Beard,  Elizabeth,  246 

Capt.  Wm.,  246 
Beatty,  John,  117,  269 
Beck,  Margaret,   261 

Paul,  101,  15& 

Margaret,  261 

Paul,  Jr.,  101,  261 

Mary  Harvey,  261 

Wm.  Currie,  262 
Becket,  Thos.  a,  20 
Bedell,  Et.  Eev.   Gregory   T.,   12 
129,  131,  139,  140 


Bell,  Ann,  256 

Eebecca  A.,  256 

Eobert  F.,  256 
Benezet,   Jas.,    29,    206,   207,    208, 
269 

John,  206 

Philip,  269 
Benham  [Bonham],  Ephraim,  206, 

207,  208 
Bennet,  Maria,  261 
Benson,  Wm.  Potter,  247 

Frederick,  247 

Peter,  247 

Jane,  247 

Jane  P.,  247 
Biekerton,  George,  269 
Biggs,  Mary,  242 

Ephraim,  242 

Thomas,  269 
Black,  Susannah  Kennedy,  263 

James,  263 

Susannah,  263 

Jeremiah  F.,  48 
Blair,  Wm.,  264 

Sarah,  264 

Samuel,  264 
Blatchford,  Eev.  Dr.  Samuel,  125 
Bodger,  Benjamin,  117 
Body,  E.,  164 

Bonham,  Ephraim,  29,  31,  39,  269 
Boore,  David,  33 
Bourn,  John,  33 
Bowen,  Thos.,  257 

David,  257 

Penelope,  257 
Bowman,  Et.  Eev.  Samuel,  144 

Eev.  Samuel  H.,  175,  176 
Boyd,  5 

Catharine,  238 

Jas.,  238 
Beyer,   Eev.    Dr.    Samuel    H.,    65, 
175,  176 

Samuel,  175 

Elenore  Simmons,  175 
7,      Bradford,  Wm.,  39 

Samuel  F.,  122 
309 


Inhtt  to  iRameiS, 


Branson,  David,  34 
Bridges,  5 

Capt.  Geo.,  257 

Alexander,  257 

Eobert,  257 

George,  257 
Bright,  John,  117 
Bringhurst,  Eev.  Dr.  Geo.,  165 
Brooks,  E.  D.,  148 

Eev.  Phillips,  147 
Broom,  Hannah,  263 

Thomas,  263 

Margaret,  263 
Broome,  Thomas,  263,  269 

Letitia,  263 
Brothers,  Michael,  34 
Brown,  5 

Mr.  Justice,  9 

Wm.,  148 

Andrew,  230 

Elizabeth,  230 

Mary,  230 

Geo.,  230 
Browne,  Peter  A.,  122 
Buckley,   5 

Wm.,  208 

Sarah,  208 
Budden,  Wm.,  31 
Bullock,  Esther  Baynton,  200 

Geo.,  200 

Joseph,  30,  199,  269 

Esther  Baynton,  30 

Joseph,  Jr.,  200 

Sophia,   200 

Anna  Maria,  200 
Burden,  Jesse  E.,  164 
Burnet,  Henry,  29 
Butler,  5 

Margaret,  240 

John,  266 

Mary,  266 

Henry,  266 

Sarah,  266 

Eev.  Dr.  Clement  M.,  147 

Cadwalader,  Dr.'  Chas.  E.,  7,  269 
Thos.,  137 


Cameron,  5 

Wm.,  117,  244 

Jas.,  245 
Campbell,   Thos.,   29,   31,   39,   206, 
207,  208 

John  M.,  18 

John,  Sr.,  36,  218,  269 

Mary,  218,  219 

Dr.  John,  199,  218 

Mary  Wood,  199 
Campion,  Mrs.,  222 

Margaret,  222 

Catharine,  222 

J.  B.,  222 
Canadine,  Thos.,  31 

Martha  Fleeson,  31 
Cannon,  Ann,  210,  240 
Cardan,  Eev.  Eichard,  147 
Carr,  Ann  Jane,  170 

Wm.  Wilkins,  170 
Carson,  5 

Eobert,  33,  240 

Hampton  L.,  273,  286 

Elizabeth  Yeaton,  240 
Carteret,  5 

Jas.  P.,  249 

Daniel,  249 

Emily,  249 
Cash,  Caleb,  32 

Eebecca,  32 
Caskey,  5 

Mary,  265 

Eobert,  265 
Cathers,  Wm.,  117 

Elenor,   217 
Cave,  Cathrane,  261 

Thomas,  261 
Chapman,  Eev.  Walter,  77,  86,  87 
Carlton,  Thos.,  29,  33,  39,  206,  207, 

208-,  210,  269 
Chase,  Et.  Eev.,  127 
Chesterfield,   Lord,   73 
Chew,  Benjamin,  67 
Childs,  Allen,   131 
Christy,  258 

Eebecca,  258 


310 


I^isftor?  ot  ^t  ^mV0  (Kpigfcopal  CSurcfi^ 


Christy,  James,  25S 

Eobert,  258 

Wm.,   258 

Robert,  Jr.,  258 
Churcli,  PhUip,  68 

Anne  Stewart,  68 
Clapier,  Mary  Heyl,  239 
Clark,  5 

Danl.,  30 

John,  242 

Mary,  244 

Jeffrey,  244 

Rev.  John  A.,  146 

William  H.,  M.D.,  270 
Claxton,  5 

John,  119,  128,  205,  270 

A.,   164 

Rev.  Dr.  Robert  B.,  165,  168 
Claypoole,  5 

Jas.,  30,  39,  270 

David  C,  100,  270 

Elizabeth,  270 

Geo.,   117,   243,   270 

Wm.,  117 

Mary,  24,  270 

Dr.  Wm.,  243 

Catharine,  243 
Clayton,  Rev.  Thos.,  26,  27,  28 
Clayton,  Susannah,  261 
Coates,  Samuel,  32 
Cohoon,  Josiah,  267 
Coit,  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  A.,  168 

Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  H.,  168 
Colket,  C.  Howard,  234 
Connelly,  5 

Rebecca  Robinson,  259 

Isaac,  259 
Conrad,  Hy.  I.,  177 

Hannah  S.  Kay,  177 

Rev.    Dr.    Thos.    Kittera,    65, 
177,  178 
Consort,  6 
Conway,  Susannah,  222 

William,  270 
Conyngham,  Mrs.  Hayfield,  68 
Cook,  Samuel,  45 


Cooke,  Jay,  7,  148,  270 
Cooper,  Cornelia,  170 
Copley,  John  Singleton,  199 
Copper,  6 

Abraham  Geo.,  239 

Elizabeth,  239,  270 

Capt.  Norris,  239,  270 

Jas.  Norris,  243 

Annie  Sayles,  243 

Sarah,  221 
Coulty,  Samuel,  258 
Cowell,  6 

Mary,   218 
Cox,  5 

James,  270 

Maria  C,  255 

Capt.  John  255 

Martha,   255 
Coxe,  Mr.,  his  son-in-law,  117 
Craig,  Geo.,  45,  92 
Craven,  6 

Crawford,  Dr.  Samuel,  177 
Croley,  Rev.  Geo.,  133 
Cromwell,  6 

his  wife,  117 

Rev.  Joseph,  98 

Oliver,  49 

Ann,  224,  252 

John,  252 

Mary,  252 

Margaret,  252 
Cummings,  6 

Norris  Stanley,   148 

Geo.,  162 

Elizabeth  Tate,  162 

Simon,  162 

Wm.,    3,    148,    161,    220,    221, 
2.54,  271 

Emily  Alexander,  220 

Mary  Irvine,  220 

Cora  Monges,  220 

Mary  Alexander,  221 
Curren,  Nathaniel,  31 
Currie,  6 

Sarah,  234 

Wm.,  M.D.,  234 


311 


SnlifjE  to  jRamegi. 


Curtis,  6 

Mary,  244 

Abigail,  244 

John,  244 

Elizabeth,  244 

Jacob  B.,  244 

John  H.,  244,  271 

Sarah  O.,  244 
Cuthbert,  Thos.,  33,  271 

Darlington,  Joseph  G.j  271 

Daughty,  6 

David,  John,  210 

Davies,  Samuel  N.,  130,  170,  223 

Eebecea,  223 

Herbert  S.,   223 

Samuel  N.,  2d,  228,  271 

Elizabeth  B.,  223 

Chas.  Edward,  223 
Davis,  John,  117 

Mrs.,  117,  222 

Elizabeth,  117,  260,  261 

Wm.,  222 

Perry,  222 

Wm.,  2d,  222 

Justinian  F.,  222 

Isabella  Price,  260 

Andrew,  260,  261 

Elizabeth,  260,  261 

Mary,  260,  261 

Wm.  Price,  261 
Davy,  Eichard,  117 
Dawson,  Joshua,  his  child,  117,  252 

Ann,  252 

Sarah,  253 
Deaver,  Dr.  John  B.,  250 

Caroline  E.,  250 
Deacon,  Gilbert,  272 
De  Bray,  Susannah  Auber,  224 

Daniel,   224 
Delany,  Lydia,  184,  185 
Delavan,  Catharine,  263 

Wm.,  263 

Catharine  Amanda,  263 
Delavan,   Joseph,   272 
DesUver,  6 


Desilver,  Margaret,  262 

Eobert,  263 

Ann,  263 
De  Wolfe  Howe,  Eev.  Dr.  Mark  A., 

147 
Dickenson,  Dr.  Willm.,  29 
Dickinson,  Jonathan,  28 
Dilworth,  Sarah,  224 
Doane,  Et.  Eev.,  141 
Dodge,  Ezra,  164 
Dogherty,  Jas.,  117 
Donaven,  6 

Capt.  John,  239 

Mary,  239 
Dorr,  Eev.  Dr.,  147 
Dougherty,  Jas.,  36,   199,  272 
Doughty,  Ann,  242 

Jas.,   242 

Margaret,  242 
Dowers,  John,  272 
Doyle,  John,  34 

Doz,  Andrew,  29,  32,  33,  39,  105, 
199,  206,  207,  208,  272 

Martha,  32,  210 

Philip,  32 

Eebecea  Cash,  32 

Eebecea,  210 
Drais,  Daniel,   253 
Dray  tons,  the,  91 
Drexel,  Anthony  J.,  278 
Drummond,  Capt.  Patrick,  67 

Ann  Bell,  67 
Dubois,  Claudius,  33 
Duche,  Anthony,  33 

Eev.  Jacob,  49,  50,  53,  82-83, 
87,   88>    91 

Elizabeth  H.,  50 

Sarah  Coats,  33 
Duff,  Edward,  221 
Duffield,   Abraham,   272 

John,  40 
Du  Plessis,  Peter  le  Barbier,  234, 
235 

Geo.,  235 

Helena,  235 

Sophia,   235 


312 


i^igitor^  of  fe)t  ^auV0  (Episfcopal  C5utc$. 


Du  Plessis,  Mrs.,  117 

Dupuy,  Dan'l,   34,  272 

Durborrow,  Chas.  B.,  7,  148,  272 
Rev.  Dr.  Samuel,  165,  169 

Durell,  Wm.,  121 

Earnest,  Jacob,  221 

Geo.  W.,  221 

Esther,  221 

Elizabeth,  221 

Eliza  D.,  221 

Jas.,  221 

Hester,  221 
Eecles,  6 

Alice,  266 

James,  266 
Edward,  Edward,  117 
Edwards,  6 

Howard,  148 
Elders,  David,  117 
Eldred,  Rev.  Wm.,  133 
Ellis,  6 

Jas.,  225 

Sarah,  225 
Elmslie,  6 

Virginia,  261 

Louis,  261 

Susan,  261 
Ernes,  6 

Worsley,  246,  272 
Emory,   Charles,  272 
Entrikin,  T.,  122 

Thos.,  122 
Erben,  Rev.  Dr.  W.,  165 
Erwin,  6 

Etting,  Solomon,  40 
Evans,  6,  77 

Wm.  M.,  child  of,  226 

Elizabeth  C,  226 

P.,  267 
Falconer,  Capt.,  42 
Falkner,  Lester,  29,  42 
Fannen,  6 

Anthony,  256 
Farr,  6 

Jas.,  7 


Farr,  Jas.  M.,  148,  272 

John,  155,  165,  169,  222,  272 

J.,  221 

Edward,  222 

Edward,  2d,  222 

Elizabeth  Parker,  266 

WiEiam,  266 

William  A.,   272 

Elizabeth,  266 
Fawcett,  Owen,  152 
Fearon,  Joseph,  272 
Feinour,  6 

Geo.,  222 

Margaret,  222^ 

Ann,   222 

Wm.,   222 

Geo.  T.,  222 
Fennell,  6 

Odell,  251 

Edmund,  251 

Margaret,  251 
Fenton,  6 

Eleazer,  7,  148,  272 

Thos.,  Jr.,  117 
Ferguson,  6 

Elizabeth,  238 

Jas.,  238 
Field,  6 

Mrs.,  117 

Barbary,  266 

Peter,  266 
Findley,  Wm.,  204 
Finley,  Francis,  117 
Fisher,  Miers,  32 

Rev.  Dr.  Chas.,  165 
Fitzgerald,  6 

Elizabeth,  256 

Lydia,  256 

Robert,  256,  272 

Mary,  256 

Kaziah,  256 
Fitzrandolph,  6 

Isaac,  237,  272 
Fleeson,  6 

Catharine,  31 

Martha  Bankson,  31 


313 


Snbei  to  0amt0, 


Fleeson,  Plunkt,  29,  30,  31,  32,  36, 
39,  105,  199,  200,  206,  207, 
208,  210,  239,  272 
^      Thos.,  31 

Rebecca  Britton,  31 
Flower,  6 

Martha,  32,  210 

Thos.,   249 

Thos.,  Sr.,  249 

Hannah,  249 
Foot,  6 

Mary,  260 
Ford,  Philip,  272 
Forder,  6 

Jas.,  253 
Forrest,  6 

Edwin,    152,   221 

Henrietta,  221 

Wm.,  221 

Caroline,  221  ' 

Eebeeca,  221 

Elenora,  221 

Lorman,   221 

Wm.,  Jr.,  221 

Joan,  206 
Fowles,  Jas.  H.,  1^5 
Fox,  Mrs.,  her  son,  117 
Francine,   Catharine  H.,   275 

James  L.,  275 
Franklin,  33,   78,  91 
Fraser,  John  Fries,  178 
Frazer,  Wm.,  92 
Freburger,  Elizabeth  Seaborn,  234 

Peter,  234 
Fugett,  Eev.  Dr.  J.  P.,  165 
Fyring,  Philip,  41 

Gardner,  Elizabeth,  170 
Garland,  Rt.  Eev.,  286 
Gartley,  Wm.,  248 

Eliza  Matilda,  248 

Wm.,  Sr.,  248 

Eliza,  248 
Garwood,  Wm.,  119 
George,  Henry,  7,  152 


John  D.,  7,  137,  148,  170,  272 

John,  33 

E.  S.  H.,  148,  272 
Getz,  Eev.  Henry  S.,  169 
Gibbons,  Eev.  Dr.  Hughes  O.,  15 
Gibson,  John  B.,  48 
Gill,  Geo.  W.,  256 

Harriet  H,,  256 

Geo.  Andrew,  256 
GiUinghan,  George,  260,  264 

Mary,  260 
Girard,  Stephen,  12 
Glenn,  Thos.  Allen,  285 
Glentworth,  Dr.  Peter,  117 

Dr.  Geo.,  4,  23,  164,  225 

Margaret  Linton,  199 

Dr.   Peter  Sonmans,   199,   272 

Dr.  Plunket  Fleeson,  199,  205, 
225,  272 

Thos.,  199 

Geo.,  2d,  225 

Margaret,  225 

Walter,  225 

Mrs.  Geo.,  225 

Geo.  P.,  225 

Harriet,  225 

Alfred,  225 

Hannah  L.,  225 

Edward  H.,  M.D.,  225 

Mrs.,  225 

John  L.,  225 

Harvey,  225 

Geo.,  225,  272 

Theodore,  225 
Goddard,   Eev.    Dr.    Kingston,   Q5, 
147,  158-160 

MatUda  S.,  159 

John,  158,  261 

Mary  Beck,  158 

Mary,  261 
Godfrey,  John  W.,  272 
Godin,  Mary,  117 
Golder,  J.,  164 
Goodman,  Asa  M.,  37 

Walter,  29,  39,  206,  207,  208, 
272 


514 


^i&totis  ot  felt,  paurss  (Kpi^copal  Cfiutc^* 


Goodwin,  6 

Geo.,  33,  199,  272 

Jolm  D.,  137 

Dr.  Daniel  E.,  147 

Susannah,   242 

John,  242 
Gosner,  Daniel,  256 

Peter,  2.56 

Jas.  T.,  256 

Ann,  256 

Hester,  256 
Gowan,  James,  272 

Francis  I.,  272 

Franklin  B.,  272 
Graham,  Wm.,  199 

Thomas,  273 

John,  266 
Greatorex,  Lawrence,  155 
Green,  Samuel,  59 

Edward  A.,  27 

Dr.,  his  child,  227 
Griswold,  Et.  Eev.,  135 
Groves,  John,  273 
Guerin,  6 

Geo.,  224 

Mary  Ann,  224 
Gummey,  J.,  189 
Gunary,  Mary,  262 
Gurling,  Abram,  273 
Gurney,  Catharine  Eoss,  30 

Henry,  30 

Catharine,  216 

Halberstadt,  6 

Geo.,  251 

Anne,  251 

Ann,   252 
Hale,  Eev.  Ghas.  E.,  169 
Hall,  David,  29^  39,  273 

Capt.  David,  4,  23 

Parry,  230,  273 

Mary,  230 

Eev.  Eichard  D.,  230 

Parry  Pilmore,  230 

Eev.  E.  Drayson,  230 

Mary  Ann,  242 


Hall,  Geo.,  242 

Martha,  242 
Hamilton,  Andrew,  29,  34 
Hancock,  Eichard,  33 
Hanson,  Jonathan,  34 
Harding,  Jesper,  194 
Hare,  Dr.,  147 
Hargrave,  Joseph,  34 
Harman,  6 

J.  H.,  148 

Susanna  Heyl,  239,  240 

Jacob,  Sr.,  240 
Harris,  6 

Jas.,  30,  253 
Hartley,  Joseph,  98 
Hawkins,  Geo.,  31 
Hayes,  Samuel,  40 

Eobinina,  229 

Eobert,  229 
Hayward,  Wm.  H.,  229 
Hazlewood,  Commodore  John,  31 

Esther  Fleeson,  31 
Henry,  Patrick,  91 
Heyl,  Dorothea,  239 

Elizabeth,  239 

George,  239 

George  A.,  240 

George  Thomas,  239 

Mary,  239 

Susanna,  239 

William,  239 
Hey  wards,  the,  91 
Hickenbottom,  Alex.  C,  29 
Hicks,  Sarah  Keller,  246 

Wm.,  246 
Hinton,  George,  117,  253 

Barbary,    253 
Holland,  6 

Nathaniel,  137,  273 

Benj.,  248 
Hollingsworth,  Levi,  205,  273 

Henry,  273 

Mary,   273 

Paschall,  273 

Zebulon,  273 
Holmes,  Mrs.,  117 


315 


Inttn  to  Bsimt0, 


Holson,  Charles,  273 
Hood,  6 

Kebecca  S.,  221 

Francis,  221 
Hoot,   6 

John,   266,  273 
Hopkinson,  214 
Hoppe,  Mary  K.,  15 
Howard,  John,  29,  33,  274 
Hozey,  6 

Jane,  259 

Isaac,  259 
Huckel,  Eev.  Wm.,  168 

John,  262 

Wm.,  262 

Susanna,  262 
Hughes,  Esther,  228 
Hulsekamp,  6 

Elizabeth,  257 

Garrett,  257 
Hyde,  6 

John,  246 

Mary,  257 
Hunt,  6 

Mary,  238 

Eichard,  238 
Huston,  John,  219 

lann,  Ann,  266 
lann,  6 

Ann,  266 
Inglis,  Chas.,  45,  92 
Irish,  Nat.,  34 
Irnitz,  Jacob,  30 
Irvine,  6 
Irving,  6 

Ann,  217 

Catharine,  217 

David,   217 

John,  217,  251 

Eev.  Edward,  133 


Jefferson,  Thos.,  146 
Jenney,  Eev.  Dr.,  25 
Johnson,  6 

Eichard,    119,    128,    205,    240, 
274 

Elizabeth  Heyl,  239 

Dr.,  73 

Frances  Sophia,  240 

Elizabeth,  240 

Fred.  Seeger,  240 

John,  267,  274 
Johnston,  Samuel,  117,  217 

John,  32,  233 

Sarah,  233 

Eleanor,  233 

Catharine,  233 

Wm.  P.,  237 
Jones,  6 

Gibbs,  23 

Jane,  23 

Jane  (Crapp),  23 

John,  23,  31 

Capt.  Gibbs,  22,  23 

Eev.  Edward  C,  168 

Col.  Blathwaite,  4,  22,  23,  31, 
274 

Mark  T.,  222 

Susannah,  222 

Susan  Shade,  258 

Thomas,  258 

Ann  Maria,  '258 

Maria  W.,  258 

John  Fergusa,  258 

Susan,  258 

John  Colem,  258 
Jordan,  6 

Dr.  John  W.,  38 

Catharine,  227 
Josephson,  Manuel,  40 
Josiah,  Emmanuel,  232,  274 

Ann,  232 


Jackson,  William,  274 
Jacobson,  6 

Hans,  265 
James,  6 


Keble,  6 

Abigail  Spicer,  200 
John,  199,  219,  274 

Keen,  6 


316 


i^isitot?  ot  &t  ^mV0  (Cpisicopal  Cfiurc^, 


Keen,  Gregory  B.,  23 

Matliias,  117^  245 

Mary,  245 

Matthias  V.,  245,  274 

Elizabeth  Hood,  245 

Gregory  Bernard,  286 
Keller,  Adam,  246 

Elizabeth,  246 
Kemper,  Et.  Eev.,  141 
Kerr,  Walter,  122 
Kimmey,  Henry  M.,  7,  148,  274 
Kincaid,  10 
King,  Robert  P.,  173,  274 

Daniel  J.,  274 

Jas.,  Jr.,  274 

Leroy  N.,  274 
Kirk,  6 

Josiah  W.,  236 

John  Palmer,  236 

Eli,  236 

Elizabeth  M.,  236 
Kirkham,  Chas.,  243,  274 

Deborah,  243 

William,  274 
Kirkpatrick,     Josephine     Spooner, 
223 

Wm.,   223 
Kittera,  Thos.,  8,  130,  218 

Thos.  Wilkes,  218 

Ann  Moore,  218 
Knowles,  John,   29,   206,   207,   208 

John,  274 
KoUock,  Cornelius,  265 

Lieut.  Jacob,  Jr.,  265 

Mary  Leech,  265 

Mary  Eogerson,  265 
Kyn,  Joran,  23 

Lafayette,  Gen'l,  99,  199 
Lake,  Ann,  228 

Thos.,  228 

•Caroline,  229 
Lammor,  Susan  P.,  262 

Daniel,  262 
Lane,  Mrs,,  117 

Wm.,  247,  274 


Lane,  Mary,  247 
Langman,  Edward,  117 
Lansdale,  W.  M.,  186 
Lapsley,  Thos.,  117 
Laskey,  6 

Margaret,  238 

Edward,  238 

Catharine,  238 
Latimer  &  Co.,  131 

Thos.,  7,  148,  274, 

Eev.  Geo,  A,,  168 
Lea,  Mrs.  Arthur  H.,  239 
Leach,  Frank  Willing,  285 

Josiah    Granville,    200,    286 
Leacock,  John,  85 

Samuel,  31 

Esther  Fleeson,  31 
Leadbetter,  Geo.,  30 
Leah,  15 
Leamy,  6 

John,  220 

Mrs.,  220 

Ann,  220 

Elizabeth,  220 
Ledlie,  6 

Wm.,  218 
Ledru,  John,  33 

Josh.,  34 
Lee,  Eiehard  Hy.,  91 
Leech,  6 

Thos.,  29,  206,  274 

Tobias,  29 

Esther  Ashmead,  29 

Margaret,  232 

Capt.  Thos.,  232 

Charlotte,  232 

WiUiam,  30 
Lees,  John,  30 
Leevers,  Eobert,  274 
Lewis,  Chas.  S.,  172 

Jacob,  206 

Michael,  his  son,  117 
Libby,  Capt.  Benj.  F,,  134 
Linton,  John,  31,  199 

Martha   Bankson,   31,   199 
Lippincott,  Samuel,  122 


317 


3}nbC3E  to  igaim0. 


Littlejolin,  Et.  Eev.  Dr.  Abram  N., 

176 
Livingston,  91 

Marian  Alexandra,  226 
Lloyd,  Peter  Z.,  204 
Lohra,  Mrs.  Mary,  117,  275 

John,  164,  275 

Catharine    Houck,    275 

Ann,  275 
Long,  Michel,  260 
Lougeay,  6 

Amy,  264 

Anthony,  264 

Phebe,  264 
Loper,  Eichard  Fanning,  148,  152, 
223,  275 

Wm.  P.,  223 

Emily  Weaver,  223 

Josephine   Kirkpatrick,  223 

Marie  L.,  223 
Lowber,   Edward,   M.D.,   279 

Elizabeth  Iwells,  279 
Lower,  Joseph,  211 
Lowry,  6 

AbigaU,  244 

Margaret,  244 
Lyon,  Solomon,  40 

Macclenachan  [MeClenaehan],  Eev.     ' 
William,   29,  35,  45-49,   64, 
66-78,  194-96 
Mary,  219 
Mackarall,  Thos.,  30 
Mackensie,  Kenneth,   30 
Mackey,  Mrs.,  225 
Maepherson,  6 

Capt.  John,  22,  235 
Gen'l  Wm.,  23,  235 
Eliza  Gates,  235 
Magaw,  Eev.  Dr.   Samuel,  32,  36, 
65,  92,  96-112,  199,  216 
Lucia  Doz,  32 
Manning,  6 

Elizabeth,  229 
Eobert  H.,  229 
Grizelda,  .229 

318 


Marey,  Francis,  117 
Markoe,  Abraham,  30,  42 

Elizabeth  Baynton,  30,  42 
Marple,   Elizabeth  E.,   222 
Marsh,  Mary  Louisa,  265 

Elias,  265 
Marshall,  Mary,  223 

Amor,  223 

Frances  Matilda,  223 

Ann  Elizabeth,  223 

Joseph  Y.,  223 
Martin,  Eev.  John,  168 

John  Hill,  9 

J.  Willis,  185 
Masden,   Benjamin,   248 

Prudence,  248 

Benjamin,  Jr.,  248 

Hannah,  248 

Ann  S.,  248 

Eichard,  275 
Mason,  Thos.,  31 

Ann,  31 
Matlack,  Eev.  Dr.  Eobert  C,  165, 

Timothy,   270 

Elizabeth  Claypoole,  270 
Matthews,  John,  205,  225,  275 

Mary,  225 

Matthew,  225 

Elizabeth,  251 

James,  251,  275 
May,  Eev.  Dr.  Jas.,  65,  143,  144, 
165 

Eobert,  143 

Adam,   228 

Catharine  Diehl, 

Ellen    Stuart   Bowman,    144 

Thomas  Potts,   143 

Euth  Potts,  143 
MeClenaehan  [Macclenachan], 

Anne  Drummond,  67 

Anne  Drummond,  67 

Ann  Darrach,  67 

Deborah,  67 

Blair,  4,  31,  67,  199,  219,  275 

Isabella,  72 

Jas.,  66 


^i^toti^  of  felt  paur^  Cpisfcopal  C^urcS. 


McClenachan,  Janet  B.,  66 

Mary,  219 

Patty,  68 

Rev.   William,   29,    35,   45-49, 
64,  66-78,  194-96 
MeClure,  Mary,  184,  185 
McCloskrey,   Et.   Eev.   Dr.    Samuel 

A.,  65,  141,  142,  165,  166 
MeCoskry,  Miss  E.,  222 
MeCully,  Thos.,  181 
McGarvey,   Rev.   Dr.   Wm.   I.,   65, 
180,  181 

Alexander,  180 

Mary  J.  C,  180 
Mcllvaine,  Rt.  Rev.,  175 
McKay,  Elizabeth,  242 

Thos,,  St.,  242 

Thos.,  Jr.,  242 
MeKean,  Robert,  45 

Thos.,  48 
McMurtrie,  Elizabeth  Spooner,  223 
McNilans,  Mary,  247 

John,  247 
MePherson,  Geo.,  249 

Daniel,  249,  250 

Daniel,  Jr.,  250 

Ann,  249,  250 

Ann  Maria,  249 

Wm.,  250 
Meer,  John,  Sr.,  250 

Mary  G.  W.,  250 
Mennick,  Joseph  P.,  208 
Mervine,  Wm.  M.,  285 
Metettal,  Fred'k,  181 
Mifflin,  Thos.,  105,  214 
Miller,  6 

Joseph,  246 

John,  246 

Mary,  246 
Millett,  Mr.,  226 
Mitchell,  6 

Caldwell  B.,  160 

Jas.  T.,  8 

Thos.,  218 

Mary  Frances,  218 

Maria  M.,  218 


Mitchell,  Jas.,  218 
Moffett,  Mr.,  222 

Sarah,  234 

John  Martin,  234 
Molier,  6 

Gulyann,  247 

Esther,  247 
Molleneaux,  Jas.,  117 
Monahan,  Rev.  I.  €.,  181 
Moorhead,  Ada  E.,  278 

Joel  Barlow,  278 

William  Y.,  270 
Moore,   Thos.,   164 

Rev.  Dr.  J.  R.,  165 

Rt.  Rev.  Richard  C,  125,  126 

Jacob  Vansciver,  245 

John,  245,  275 

Hannah,  245 
Morgan,  Col.  George,   30 
Morris,  4 

Anthony,   187,   206-208 

Israel,  187,  206-208 

Sarah,  206 

Robert,  67 

Samuel,  206,  208 
Morrison,  6 

Wm.,  117,  245 

Sarah,  221,  245 
Morton,  John,  234 

Sarah,  234 
Mory,  6 

Elizabeth,  237 

Capt.  Lewis,  237 
Mountford,  226 
Moyes,  John,  33,  261,  275 

James,  261,  275 

Mary,  261 

Ann,  261 
Moyston,  6 

Jane,  238 

Edward,  238 
Muhlenberg,  Fred.  A.,  204 
Murdick,  6 

Mary,  237 

John,  237 

Hannah,  237 


319 


Knliej  to  jgameisi* 


Murdoch,  Wm.,   29,  164 
Murdock,  Wm.,  Jr.,  32 
Murphy,  Michael,  117 
Murray,  Alexander,  92 

John,  164 
Musgrove,  James,  275 
Muskett,  6 

Thos.,  244 

Ellen,  244 
Muskitts,  Mrs.,  117 
Myers,  6 

Anthony,  225,  226 

Isabella  Rowley,  226 

Nally,  6 

Francis  C,  257 

James  S.,  257 

Esther,  257 
Neave,  Richard,  42,  243 
Neill,  6,  53 

Rev.  Hugh,  64 
Neilson,  6 
Nelson,  Geo.,  34,  36,  199,  253, 

Wm.,   Ill,  247 

Ann,  247 

Sarah,  253 
Nesbitt,  Alexander,  68 

J.  M.,  68 
NeviUe,  Rev.  Dr.,  147 
Newcomb,  Bayse,  Jr.,  122 
Newton,  Richard,  145 

Elizabeth  Cluett,  145 

Rev.  Dr.  Richard,  65,  145- 
161,  165,  211,  220,  222 

Rev.   Dr.  R.   Heber,   65, 
155,  161-173 

Rev.  Wm.  W.,  155,  170 
Nichola,  Major  Lewis,  34 
Nichols,  Martha,  267 

James,  267 
Noble,  Col.,  66 
Norman,  Joseph,  117,  205,  27i 

Margaret,  253 
Norris,  Isaac,  28 
North,  Phoebe,   227 

Jas.  Bartram,  227 


North,  Phoebe  H.,  227 
Richard,  2d,  227 
Mary  Ann,  227 
Phoebe  Emma,  227 
William,  227 
Richard,    123,    128,    205,    227, 

275 
Sarah  S.,  227 
Stephen,  227 
Alfred  Augustus,  227 
Mary,  227 

Odell,  John,  92 

Odenheimer,    John    W.,    137,    165, 

166,  275 

Rt.   Rev.   Wm.   H.,  DD.,   147, 

152,  163,  165,  166,  168,  275 

Olyphant,  Hannah,  217 

Onderdonk,   Rt.   Rev.   H.   N.,   141, 

146 
O'Neaill,  Neomai,  266 
Daniel,  266 
275  Ann,  266 

O'Neill,  Daniel,  267 
Ord,  Geo.,  29,  33,  36,  39,  199,  275 
John,  29,  31,  33,  39,  206,  208, 
275 
Ormrod  &  Conrad,  111 
Oswald,  Eleazer,  107,  108 

Page,  S.  Davis,  49 

iCol.  Jas.,  137 
157,       Palmer,  John,  29,  32,  36 

Deborah  Bankson,  32 
148,  Ann,  217 

Jonathan,  217 

Asher,  217 

Wm.,  217 

Thos.,   205,   217,   275 

John,   29,    32,    206,    207,    208, 
217,   236,   275 
5  Deborah,  236 

John,  2d,  236 

Alice  M.,  236 

John  Bankson,   275 

John  R.,  236 
320 


^i0totiS  ot  &t  paurjS  episcopal  C8utc5» 


Panton,  Geo.,  92 

Parker,  Alvin  Mercer,  223 

Joseph  B.  Bloodgood,  233 

Eiehd.,  32,  262 

Matthew  &  son,  117 

Matthew,  248,  275 

Catharine,  248 

John,  248 

Joseph,  248 

Samuel,  248 

Lydia,  248 

Joseph  Pilmore,  248 
Parsons,  Thos.,  187,  207,  208 
Paul,  William,  275 
Parvin,  Eev.  Robert  J.,  153,  155 
Patterson,  Eobert,  137 
Patton,  6 

Paxson,  Mr.  Justice,   13 
Payne,  Jas.,  32,  275 
Peale,  Chas.  "Wilson,  115 

James,  270 

Mary  Claypoole,  270 
Pechin,    Christopher,   34,   259,   2 

John,  128,  205,  218,  275 

John  C,  164 

Almira,   170,   218 

George,  259 

Christiana,  259 
Pedicord,  Caleb  B.,  98 
Pendletons,  the,  91 
Penn,  William,  25 
Penrose,  Ann  Fleeson,  200 

Sarah  Moulder,  200 

Samuel,  31,  36,  199,  200,  2 

Thos.,  33,  200 

Sarah  Coats,  200 
Perry,  John,  32 

James,  275 
Peters,  77 
Phile,  John,  205,  275 

Frederick,  239,   240 

Elizabeth,  239 
Phipps,  Lieut.  Spencer,  66 
Pidgeon,  Mary,  262 

David,  275 
Pigott,  R.,  164 

22 


Pilmore,  Rev.  Joseph,  D.D.,  48,  65, 
104,  112,  113-124,  205,  211, 
212,  216 
Pinckneys,  the,  91 
Pitfield,  Benjamin,  117 
Pleasants,  Rev.  Chas.  E.,  167 
Potter,  6 

Rt.  Rev.  Alonzo,  146,  147,  163, 
177 

George  W.,  275 

Peter  Miercken,  226 

Richard,  226 

Catharine,  226 

Richard  Cheslyn,  227 

Catharine  Miercken,  227 
Powel,  Samuel,  118,  187,  206,  207, 

208 
Pritchard,  John  Simes,  258 

Joseph,    258 

Elizabeth,  258 
Powers  &  Weightman,  62,  130 
Poyntell,  William,  276 
75      Pratt,  Rev.  Dr.,  146,  165 

Prendergast,  Eev.  Edmond  F.,  15 
Presley,  John,  32 
Prevost,  Andrew  M.,  122 
Price,  6 

Isabella,  260 

George,  260 
Pringle,  Joseph,  263 
Pritchard,  6 
Procter,  Proctor, 

Francis,  Sr.,  22,  237 
75  Anna  Maria,  237 

Robert  Charlton,  237 

Gen'l  Thos.,  4,  22,  23,  237 
Pullin,  Robert,   276 
Pursell,  Jos.,  29 
Purvis,  Wm.,  his  wife,  117 

Quarry,  Col.,  27 

Ramzay,  Mons.,  66 
Randall,  Caroline  W.,  250 

Edmund,   250 

Joseph  C,  250 


321 


Intin  to  i^amt&. 


Randolph,  Benj.,  29,  276 

Isaac,  276 

Stephen,  265 
Bankin,  6 

Juliet  Ann,  257 

Wm.,  257 

Eandall,   250 
Raworth,  6 

Grace,  266 
Read,  John,  276 

Martha,  241 

Francis,  241 
Reading,  Philip,  45,  92 
Redles,  G.  Albert,  170 
Redner,  Lewis  H.,  7 

Joseph  J.,  148 
Reed,  Rev.   Dr.    J.   Sanders,   165, 

166,  169 
Reichner,  L,  Irving,  244 
Reily,  John,  29,  33,  39 
Renshaw,  Chas.,  233 

Wm.,  233 

Mary  Ann,  233 

Ann,  233,  236 

Francis  J.,  236 

Richard,    33,    199,    232,    233, 
236,  276 

Mary  Erwin,  232,  233,  236 

Alice  Johnston  Neill,  232 
Richard,  2d,  233,  276 

Richard,  3d,  233 

Mary  J.,  233 

Richard,  4th,  233 
Rensselaer,  125 
Reynolds,  6 

Elizabeth,  216 
Rhinehard,  Martin,  276 
Rhinelander,  Rt.  Rev.  Philip  M.,  3, 

286 
Rhoads,  Samuel,  206 

Mary,  252 

John,  252 
Richard,  Thos.,  29 
Richardet,  6 
Richards,  Mary,  252 

John,  252 


Richardson,  Wm.,  172 
Ridgley,  Nicholas,  97 

Mary  Vining,  97 
Riley,  John,  276 
Rimer,  6 

Mary,  217 

Thos.,  217 
Rinedollar,  6 

Hester,  237 

Emanuel,  237 
Rivelly,  6 

Elizabeth,  221 

■Chas.  M.,  221 
Robbins,  Samuel  J.,  205,  276 

Benjamin,   240,    241 

Ruth,  240 

Susan,  241 

John,  241,  276 

Alexander,  241 

Elizabeth,  241 

Susannah,  241 

Catharine,  241 
Roberdeau,  6 
Roberts,  Hugh,  206 

Rev.  Dr.  Edmund,  165,  167 
Robinett,  6 

Margaret  James,  230 

Mary  McGlathery,  230 

Thos.,  230 

Jas.,  230 

Ferguson,  230 

Richard,  230,   236,  276 

Mary,  230 

Robert  W.  C,  230 
Robins,  Thos.,  Sr.,  72 

Leah  Whalley,  72 
Robinson,  Abraham,  117 

Daniel,    276 

Rebecca,  255 

Mary,  259 

Henry,   259,  260 

Benjamin,  260 

Samuel,  260,  276 

Judith,  260 

Joseph,  260 

Ruth,  260 


322 


^i^totv  ot  felt  paurgf  (CpiiSciJjpal  C^ucc^. 


Eobinson,  William,  276 
Eoclie,  Eev.  Dr.  Robert  T,,  65, 
175 

Wm.  Hy.,  174 

Sarah  M.  T.,  174 
Romaine,  Eev.  Wm.,  75^  87 
Eose,  Ann  A.,  223 

David,  223,  224 

Mary,  224,  247 

Eebecea,  224 

Samuel,  224 

Thos.,  224 

Ann  S.,  224 

David,  2d,  224 

Abigail,  224 

Samuel,  2d,  224 
Eoss,  Capt.  Chas.,  15 

Eev.  Geo.,  29 

John  29,  30,  33-36,  49-52, 
207,   216,   276 

Elizabeth,  216 

Elizabeth  Morgan,  30 
Eow,  6 

Elizabeth,  217 

Capt.  Edward,  217 
Rowland,  Eev.  Dr.,  177 
Eowley,  Jane  B.,  62 

Edward,  205,  225,  276 

Richard,  61,  62,  225,  226 

Ann,  226 

Horatio  G.,  226 

Ellen  Ann,  226 

John,  226 

Edward,  Jr.,  226 

Mr.,  his  child,  226 
Rush,  136 
Rushton,  6 

Nancy,  265 

Edward,  265 

William,  265 

Jane,  265 
Russell,  Rev.  Wm.  C,  167 
Eyerson,  6 

Elizabeth,  230 

Thos.,  230,  231 

Mary,  230,  231 


Sadler,  6 
174,  Matthias,   239,   276 

Eleanor,  239 
Salaignac,  Eloise,  229 
Savidge,  John,  276 
Sayres,  Edward  S.,  18,  101 
Scarborough,  Et.  Eev.,  152 
Seaborn,  6 

Eobert  C,  234 

Elizabeth,  234 
Seabury,  Et.  Eev.  Samuel,  56,  105, 

115 
Seaman,  Wm.,  159 

Matilda  S.,  159 
Search,  Christopher,  117 
Seckle,  Lawrence,  276 
Sellers,  Wm.,  34 

Edward  Jaquett,  265 
206,      Sergeant,  Thos.,  204 
Seyfert,  6 

Conrad,  251 

Elizabeth,  251 
Shade,  6 

John  v.,  258 

Susan  Warner,  258 

Peter,  258 
Shaffner,  6 

Deborah,  253 

Francis,  253 
Shafner,  Francis,  his  wife,  117 
Sharp,  Jeremiah  T.,  30 
Sharswood,  4,  10 
Shaw,  Elizabeth  Palmer,  217 

Samuel  Adam,  255 
Shea,  Shee,  Walter,  29,  33,  276 
Shinkle,  6 

Mr.,  his  child,  221 

Julia  E.,  221 
Shober,  Dr.  John  B.,  23 

Susannah  B.,  164,  170 
Shute,  Atwood,  34 

William,  29,  34,  207,  208,  276 
Simpson,  6 

Ann,  227 

Wm.,  227 

Eleanor,  227 
323 


SnlifjE  to  jRamr0. 


Simpson,  Samuel^  227 

Day,  227 

Geo.,  227,  228 

Gustavus,  227 

Stephen  Day,  228 

Mrs.,  228 

Eleanor  Day,  228 

Stephen,  228 

Mrs.  Stephen,  228 

Julianna,  228 

Emeline,  228 
Skerrett,  6 

Joseph  R.  A.,  221 
Skyhoof,  Maria,  276 

Michael,  276 

Margaret,  276 

Sarah,  276 
Smethurst,  Eichard,  276 
Smith,  6 

John,  34,  219 

Wm.,  32,  276 

Dr.  Wm.,  45 

Col.  Chas.  Somers,  34 

Hy.    Hollingsworth,    M.D., 

Francis  G.,  M.D.,  34 

Atwood,  34 

Mary  Hyde,  246 

Jonithin,  246 

Samuel,  285 
Snell,  George,  254 

Capt.  Jas.,  254 

Eliza,   254 
Snyder,  6 

Mary  A.,  224 
Sonmans,  Dr.  Peter,  199 
Spain,  6 

Ann,  253 

Capt.  Edward,  258 
Spear,  Eev.  Dr.,  165 
Spenee,  6 

Andrew,   259 

Mary,  259 
Sparry,  6 

John,  229 
SpHlard,  6 

Matthew,  229 


Spillard,  Mary,  229 

Jas.  Alexander,  229 

Mary  Ann,  229 

Maria,  229 

Elizabeth,  229 
Spooner,  6 

Catharine  Mercer  Baird,  223 
Spriggs,  Catharine,  262 

James,  262 
Sprogell,  John,  Jr.,  33 
Standley,  Elizabeth  Fulton,  276 

Hugh,  276 

Eichard,  276 

William,  276 
Stanley,  6 

Capt.   Norris,   3,   231,   276 

Mary,  231 

William,  276 
Starkey,  Eev.  Dr.  T.  Alfred,  168 
Stavely,  Wm.,  116 
Stevens,  Gov'r,  143 

Eev.  Dr.  Chas.  Ellis,   65,  179, 
180 
34  Jas.  E.  P.,  179 

Mary  P.  A.,  179 
Stevenson,  Jas.,  31,  39,  277 

Ashfield,  117 

Mrs.,  her  daughter,  117 

Ann,  228,  229 

Eobert,  228 

Wm.,  228 

Peter,  228 

Margaretta,  229 

Cornelius,  205,   228,  276 

William,  277 
Stokes,  Wm.,  247 

Mary,  247 
Stewart,  Aaron,  277 

Gen'l  Walter,  22,  68 

Deborah  MeClenachan,  67,  68 

Anne,   68 

Adam,  68 

Eobert,  68 

Samuel  M.,  277 
Stiles,  6 

Wm.,  &  his  apprentice,  117 

324 


^motv  ot  felt  paur0  episcopal  CJutcl. 


stiles,  Wm.,  Jr.,  117 

Mrs.,  117 

Thos.  T.,  205,  276 

Haanah,  246 

Thos.,   246 

Mary,   246 
Stockton,  Chas.,  164,  277 
Stoddard,  John,  277 
Stotesbury,  James  M.,  277 

Richard  G.,  7,  220,  277 

Arthur,  205,  220,  277 

Edward  C,  219 

Helen  L.,  220 

Fannie  B.,  220 

James  M.,  277 

S.  Louise,  220 

Mary,  220 

Mary  Ann,  277 

Wm.,  220 

Thos.  P.,  220 

Martha  P.,  220 
Stow,  Chas.,  29 
Stretch,  Isaac,  29,  277 
Stringer,  Rev.  Wm.,  64,  86-95 
Strong,  Ashbel,  125 

Capt.,  his  daughter,  117 
Stuart,  Mary,  242 

John,  242 

Martha,  242 
Sturgeon,  Wm.,  45 
Sturgis,  Peter,  277 
Suddards,  Rev.  Dr.,  146 
Swan,  Richd.,  29 
Sw^anwick,  John,  277 
Swain,  Rolanda   S.,  231 
Symes,  Rev.  Br,  Snyder  B.,  165 

Tallman,  Elizabeth,  239 
Taylor,  Richard,  29 

James  N., 
Tennick,  Andrew,  his  wife,  117 
Thackara,  Catharine,  250 

Samuel,  277 

Wm.,  Sr.,  250 
Thomas,  John  W.,  7,  44,  148,  168, 
277 


Thomas,  Ada  E.  Moorhead,  278' 
Zachariah,  117 
Gabriel,  27 

Geo.  C,  57,  148,   277-79 
Richard  Newton,  170 
Thomson,  Edward,  278 

Jacob,  278 
Thompson,    Richard,    164,    279 

Wm.,  92 
Thomson,  Edward  Renshaw,  233 
E,  E.,  233 
Ann  R.,  233 
James,  264 
John,  264 
Jacob,  264 
Mary,  264 
Thorn,  Zachariah,  117 
Tidmarsh,  Giles,  Jr.,  31 
Tingley,  Sam'l,  92 
Toland,  6 

Henry,  68 
Geo.,  219 
Blair  M.,  219 
Mary  H.,  '219 
Robert,  219 
H.,  219 
Mary,  219 
Towers,  Robt.,  29,  39,  279 
Towne,    Benjamin,    36,    200,    248', 

279 
Toy,  John,  164,  205,  279 
Turnbull,  Chas.  Smith,  M.D.,  34 
Turner,  6 

John,  205,  244,  279 
Mary,  244 

Joseph,  199,  231,  279 
Sarah,  231 
Elizabeth,  231 
Rev.  Joseph,  231 
Joseph  M.,  231 
Eliza,  231 
Esther,  231 
Twells,  Elizabeth,  276 
Godfrey,  276,  279 
Sarah,  276 
Standley, 


325 


:snhn  to  ji^antfiS. 


Twells,  Edward, 

Eichard, 
Tybout,  James,  256 

Comfort   (KoUoek),  256 
Tyng,  Chas.  R.,  140 

Dudley  A.,  135 

Sarah  H.,  135 

Eev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.,  65,  135- 
140,  165 

Usher,  Robt.,  29 

Vallanee,  John,  251,  279 

Margaret,  251 
Vanderhalt,  6 

Mary  240 
Van  Dusen,  Joseph  B.,  7,  148,  149, 

279 
Van  Mannierck,  Anthony,  218 

Ann  Wood,  218 
Van  Pelt,  Peter,  164 
Vining,  Capt.   Benj.,  97 

Mary,   97 
Vinton,  Dr.  Alexander  H.,  146 
Voigt,  6 

Waldo,  Gen'l,  66 
Walker,  Elizabeth,  223 
WaUace,  Thos.  Edward,  243 

William,  279 
Walsh,    Stevenson   Hockley,   228^ 
Wardden,  Joseph,  29 
Warner,  Margaret,  258 

Susan,  258 
Warton,  John,  117 
Washburn,  Eev.  Dr.  Louis  C,  179 
Washington,  Gen'l  Geo.,  4,  8,   22, 

50,  68,  91,  97,  106 
Watkins,  7 

Eichard,  252 

Thos.,  252 

Euth,  252 

Wm.,  252 
Watson,  Rev.  Dr.  Benjamin,   165, 

168 
Wayne,  Humphrey,  30 


Weaver,  Matthew,  279 
Webb,  Mary,  238 

John,  238,  249 

Margaret,  238 

Eachel,  249 

Thos.,  249 
Weightman,  Wm.,  7 
West,  Collins,  279 

Thomas,  279 
Weston,  Ann,  219 
Wharton,  7,  42 

Eobert,  8 

John,  205,  260,  279 

Margaret,  260 

John,  Jr.,  260 

Wm.,  260 
Wheaton,  7 

Enoch,  241 
White,  Et.  Eev.  Wm.,  DD.,  32,  68, 
217 

W.  Blanch,  31 

Jas.,  31 

John,  280 

Joseph,    280 

Thos.,  34 
Whiteear,  Thomas,  256 

Hester  Gosner,  256 
Whitehead,  Joseph,  &  child,  117 
Wigmore,  7 

Thomas,   258 

Susannah,  258 
Wilkinson,  John,  31,  33,  280 
William,  Thos.,  249 

Wm.,  249 

Thos.,  Sr.,  249 

Mary  Fenton,  249 
Williams,  John,  32,  280 
Wilmer,  Dr.,  126 

Lambert,   36,  280 

Mary  Barker,  199 

Mary  Price,  199 

Simon,  199 
Wilson,  7 

Ann,   117 

E.  &  W.,  211 

Mary,  249 


326 


^i0totif  of  S>t  paur^  CpfiScDpal  €Wtt% 


Wilson,  Jas.,  249 

Edward,  249 

John,  258 

William   C,   258 
Wiltberger,    Kev.    Christian,    169, 
226 

Christian,  205,   210,  211,  226, 
280 

Ann,  226 

Hetty,  226 

Christian,  2d,  226 

Edward,  226 

George,  226 

Mr.,  his  child,  226 

Maria  S.,  226 
Wisdom,  Wm.,  262 
Wise,  Eev.  Henry,  147 
Wistar,  Wm.,  40 
Wister,  Chas,  J.,  200 

Eebecca  BuUock,  200 
Wood,  John,  watchmaker,  117 

Leighton,  his  wife,   117 

John,  4,  23,  32,  205,  218,  280 

Hannah  Caskey,  265 

Eobert  S.,  265 

Elizabeth,  267 

I.,  Jr.,  267 

Thomas,  280 


Wren,  Sir  Christopher,  136 
Wright,  Joseph,  245 

Joseph,  his  wife,  117 

Thomas,  280 

Anthony,  245 

Hannah,  245 

John  W.,  245 

Eosannah,  250 

Joseph,  250 
Wyoming,  22 

Yorke,  7 

Mary,  243 

Capt.  Peter,  243 
Young,  7 

John,  29,  30,  39,  199,  236,  280 

Wm.,  29,  112 

John,  Jr.,  280 

Edward,  236 

John  B.,  236 

Chas.,  236 

Laetitia,  236 

Ann,  236 

(Samuel,  280 

Thomas,  280 
Youngs,  Frances,  252 

Thos.,  252 

Ann,  252 


327 


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Bulletin,  No.  1.  Colonial  Legislation  in  Pennsylvania,  1700-1712. 
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Colonial  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  in  association  with  the  Swedish 
Colonial  Society.    1912. 

History  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania.  By  Samuel  Smith. 
Edited  by  William  M.  Mervine.    1913. 

Certain  Black-Letter  Days  in  the  Life  of  William  Penn.  Address 
of  Frank  Willing  Leach  before  The  Colonial  Society  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1916.    1917. 


puftltcationgf  Colonial  ^ocitti^  ot  penngsglijania 

1760-1898,  Outline  of  the  History  of  Old  St.  Paul's  Church,  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  with  an  appeal  for  its  preservation,  to- 
gether with  Articles  of  Agreement,  Abstract  of  Title,  List  of 
Rectors,  Vestrjonen  and  inscriptions  of  tombstones  and  vaults. 
By  Norris  Stanley  Barratt.    1917. 


Committee  on  Publications 


Gregory  Bernard  Keen,  Josiah  Granville  Leach, 

Norris  Stanley  Barratt. 


^isitorical  feiocietg  ot  ptnngiglljania 


Extract  from  the  Minutes  of  the  Annual  Meeting  op  the 

Historical  Society  op  Pennsylvania  held,  Monday,  May  14, 

1917:  Hon.  Hampton  L.  Carson,  Presiding. 

On  motion  of  Hon.  Norris  S.  Barratt  the  following  resolution  was 
unanimously  adopted: 

Whereas  the  Right  Reverend  Philip  M.  Rhinelander  and  the 
Trustees  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Diocese  of 
Pennsylvania  are  considering  the  question  of  selling  Old  St.  Paul's 
Church,  Third  Street  below  Walnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  with  the 
burial  grounds,  vaults  and  graves,  and  devoting  the  proceeds  thereof, 
if  any,  towards  building  a  Diocesan  House  for  the  City  Mission  in 
conjunction  with  the  contemplated  Cathedral  Church  of  St.  Mary's 
to  replace  the  Church  of  the  Ascension  now  at  Btoad  and  South 
Streets, 

And  whereas  Old  St.  Paul's  is  a  part  of  our  Colonial,  revolu- 
tionary and  Church  history,  and  has  buried  in  its  church  yard  many 
Philadelphians,  who  in  their  day  and  generation  acted  their  part 
nobly, 

Therefore  Resolved,  That  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania, 
one  of  whose  objects  is  the  preservation  of  shrines  and  memorials 
of  the  past  which  make  our  history,  desire  to  place  upon  record  its 
disapproval  of  the  proposed  sale  and  desecration  of  Old  St.  Paul's 
Church  and  its  historic  dead. 

And  be  it  further  Resolved  that  a  copy  of  these  Resolutions  be 
sent  to  Bishop  Rhinelander,  Bishop  Garland,  and  the  Trustees  of  the 
Diocese  of  Pennsylvania. 


Resolutions  to  the  same  effect  have  also  been  adopted  by  the 
Colonial  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  The  Genealogical  Society  of  Penn- 
sylvania, The  Pennsylvania  Society  of  Colonial  Dames  of  America 
and  The  State  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  of  Pennsylvania,  who  thus 
place  themselves  upon  record  as  in  favor  of  preserving  Old  St. 
Paul's. 


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